Citizen Killings - Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk

Zusatztext Baker's work presents a real challenge…. It's an important challenge for the rest of us, too… Informationen zum Autor Deane-Peter Baker is an Associate Professor of Ethics at the University of New South Wales, Australia; a Visiting Research Fellow in the Kings College London Centre for Military Ethics, UK; and a Research Associate in the Centre for Applied Ethics at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Previous books include Citizen Killings (Bloomsbury 2016) and Just Warriors Inc. (Continuum 2010). Citizen Killings provides a moral framework through which to address the question of state policy regarding citizen killings. Zusammenfassung Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings’, which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called ‘foreign fighters’. Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political liberalism places on the state, particularly the requirement to respect citizens’ right to life and the principle of liberal neutrality. Where these principles come into tension Baker shows that they can in some cases be defused by way of a reasonableness test, and in other cases addressed through the application of what he calls the ‘risk of harm principle’. The book also explores the question of what measures citizens and other states might legitimately take in response to states that fail to implement morally appropriate policies regarding citizen killings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Two Fundamentals and the Nature of Risk Chapter One: Self-Defence and Gun Bans Chapter Two: Contracted Combatants and Foreign Fighters Chapter Three: Assisted Suicide, Euthanasia and Brain Death Chapter Four: Abortion and Infanticide Chapter Five: Citizen Killings, Civil Disobedience and Armed Rebellion Chapter Six: Citizen Killings and Humanitarian Intervention Conclusion Appendix: What about Killing Animals? BibliographyIndex...

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• Authors: Deane-Peter Baker, Deane-Peter (University of New South Wales Baker
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9781472575432
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-7543-2
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Politische Unterdrückung und Verfolgung, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LAW / Right to Die, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Political oppression & persecution, Political oppression and persecution, Ethical issues: euthanasia and right to die, Ethical Issues: Euthanasia & Right To Die