The bounds of defense : killing, moral responsibility, and war /
"Liberal conceptions of the moral justification for war have become dominant since the publication of Michael Walzer's Just & Unjust Wars in 1977. This dominance is seen across all contemporary manifestations of just war theory: from international relations and diplomatic discourse, fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "Liberal conceptions of the moral justification for war have become dominant since the publication of Michael Walzer's Just & Unjust Wars in 1977. This dominance is seen across all contemporary manifestations of just war theory: from international relations and diplomatic discourse, from the minds and proclamations of military commanders and governmental leaders, to the everyday political assertions and philosophical rationalization of most individuals. Similarly, rights-based accounts of the moral justification of individual defensive killing have been dominant since, at least, Judith J. Thomson's work on the issue in the early Seventies. Over the past two decades, however, these already rich fields of research--just war theory and the ethics of defensive harm--have each experienced significant and sustained resurgence"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190692537 0190692537 9780190692544 0190692545 9780190692520 0190692529 |