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Cosmopolitan War (Hardcover)
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War is about individuals maiming and killing each other, and yet,
it seems that it is also irreducibly collective, as it is fought by
groups of people and more often than not for the sake of communal
values such as territorial integrity and national
self-determination. Cecile Fabre articulates and defends an ethical
account of war in which the individual, as a moral and rational
agent, is the fundamental focus for concern and respect--both as a
combatant whose acts of killing need justifying and as a
non-combatant whose suffering also needs justifying. She takes as
her starting point a political morality to which the individual,
rather than the nation-state, is central, namely cosmopolitanism.
According to cosmopolitanism, individuals all matter equally,
irrespective of their membership in this or that political
community. Traditional war ethics already accepts this principle,
since it holds that unarmed civilians are illegitimate targets even
though they belong to the enemy community. However, although the
traditional account of whom we may kill in wars is broadly faithful
to that principle, the traditional account of why we may kill and
of who may kill is not. Cosmopolitan theorists, for their part, do
not address the ethical issues raised by war in any depth. Fabre's
Cosmopolitan War seeks to fill this gap, and defends its account of
just and unjust wars by addressing the ethics of different kinds of
war: wars of national defence, wars over scarce resources, civil
wars, humanitarian intervention, wars involving private military
forces, and asymmetrical wars."
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