Violence in proportion /
This resource uncovers and explains the philosophical puzzles that a commitment to a proportionality limit on violence and harm gives rise to. It also maps out various positions that we may take in response to these puzzles and argues for certain responses.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This resource uncovers and explains the philosophical puzzles that a commitment to a proportionality limit on violence and harm gives rise to. It also maps out various positions that we may take in response to these puzzles and argues for certain responses. |
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| Abstract: | "Almost everyone agrees that in order to be justified, violence must be proportionate. This claim, and related claims, extends across an array of moral, political, and legal contexts—including just war, self-defence, punishment, and human rights law. This proportionality principle may seem fairly simple: in order to be justified, inflicted harm must produce enough good. But this simple idea conceals hidden philosophical depths. In this book, Patrick Tomlin uncovers, explores, and proposes solutions to several philosophically knotty problems that any account of proportionate violence will need to address. These include how to understand the ‘baseline' against which we measure whether some defensive or preventive action is proportionate, how to make proportionality decisions under uncertainty, how to understand the relationship between proportionate acts and proportionate courses of action, and how and when harms should or should not be aggregated to render conduct disproportionate"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191898402 0191898406 9780192635884 0192635883 |