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Helen Frowe offers a new account of when and why it is morally permissible for a person to use force to defend herself or others against harm. She explores the use of force between individuals before extending the enquiry to war, to argue that we should judge the ethics of killing in war by the moral rules that govern killing between individuals.
Sommario
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1: Threats and Bystanders
- 2: Killing Innocent Threats
- 3: Moral Responsibility and Liability to Defensive Harm
- 4: Liability and Necessity
- 5: War and Self-Defence
- 6: Non-Combatant Liability
- 7: Non-Combatant Immunity
- 8: Implications and Objections
- Bibliography
- Index
Info autore
Helen Frowe is Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Stockholm, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. She is the author of The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction (Routledge, 2011), and co-editor of How We Fight: Ethics in War (OUP, 2014).
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Helen Frowe offers a new account of when and why it is morally permissible for a person to use force to defend herself or others against harm. She explores the use of force between individuals before extending the enquiry to war, to argue that we should judge the ethics of killing in war by the moral rules that govern killing between individuals.
Testo aggiuntivo
Frowe's intricately argued, insightful, and challenging book. I have benefited enormously from thinking as carefully as I am able about the positions she defends and the arguments she gives for them. I am confident that the same will be true of others who read this splendid book.
