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The Moral Target - Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (Paperback)
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The Moral Target - Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other Conflicts (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Ethics Series
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The Moral Target: Aiming at Right Conduct in War and Other
Conflicts comprises essays that discuss aspects of war and other
conflicts in the light of both nonconsequentialist ethical theory
and the views of such theorists as Barbara Herman, Jeff McMahan,
Avishai Margalit, and Michael Walzer. The first essay deals with
the relation between states of affairs whose termination justifies
war and states of affairs that once achieved should put an end to
war. The next few essays deal with conduct in war. They first
consider the implications of general moral principles (including
the Doctrine of Double Effect and Principle of Permissible Harm)
for the permissibility of harm to combatants and noncombatants, and
then whether factors unique to war should alter what is
permissible. In particular, if the context of war should affect the
relative violability of different combatants and different
noncombatants, if terror killing combatants and/or noncombatants
should ever be permissible, and if there is liability to harm in
virtue of belonging to a group. The fifth essay examines how recent
discussions by nonconsequentialists about redirection of threats
(as in the famous Trolley Problem) may illuminate the moral status
of collaboration that took place with Nazis during the Holocaust.
What justice requires after conflict and how our ability to provide
it affects the permissibility of starting war, is the next topic.
Truth and reconciliation commissions and retribution post-conflict
are discussed, and whether harm to civilians stemming from such
procedures (and how the harm arises) bear on the permissibility of
instituting the procedures. The three concluding essays deal with
moral aspects of conflicts outside of standard war, including those
involving the threat of terrorism, resistance to communal injustice
(for example, in the case of the Taliban women), and the use of
nuclear weapons for deterrence.
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