Ethics of War - Essays

This authoritative treatment on the ethics of war contains twelve original essays by eminent scholars who first challenged the orthodoxy of Just War theory, as well as by up-and-coming thinkers. The essays span both foundational and topical issues in the ethics of war.

List of contents

• 1. Liability, Proportionality, and the Number of Aggressors Jeff McMahan


• 2. The Lesser Evil Obligation David Rodin


• 3. Human Rights, Proportionality and the Lives of Soldiers Larry May


• 4. Resolving the Responsibility Dilemma Ricahard Arneson


• 5. Duress and Duty Victor Tadros


• 6. Can States be Corporately Liable to Attack in War? François Tanguay-Renaud


• 7. Targeting al Qaeda: Law and Morality in the US "War on Terror" Andrew Altman


• 8. Killing with Discrimination Adil Ahmad Haque


• 9. Double Effect and the Laws of War George Draper


• 10. Beyond the Paradigm of Self-Defense? On Revolutionary Violence Mattias Iser


• 11. War's Endings and the Structure of Just War Theory Seth Lazar


• 12. Moral Recovery After War: The Role of Hope Nancy Sherman

About the author

Bazargan: Assistant Professor; Rickless: Professor; both at Department of Philosophy, University of California San Diego

Samuel C. Rickless earned his B. A. from Harvard in 1986, spent two years on a Marshall Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford (1986-1988), where he earned a B. Phil., and then earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA in 1996. After five years as an Assistant Professor of philosophy at Florida State University, he moved to UC San Diego, where he is now a Full Professor.

Summary

This authoritative treatment on the ethics of war contains twelve original essays by eminent scholars who first challenged the orthodoxy of Just War theory, as well as by up-and-coming thinkers. The essays span both foundational and topical issues in the ethics of war.

Additional text

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Product details

• Authors: Saba ( Bazargan
• Assisted by: Saba Bazargan (Editor), Saba ( Bazargan (Editor), Bazargan Saba (Editor), Samuel C Rickless (Editor), Samuel C. Rickless (Editor), Samuel C. ( Rickless (Editor), Rickless Samuel C. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.03.2017
• EAN: 9780199376148
• ISBN: 978-0-19-937614-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Military Science, HISTORY / Military / Strategy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, International Relations, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Literary essays, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science, war; medieval