Killing in War (Hardcover)

Jeff McMahan

Series: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics

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Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.

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Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
Release date:	April 2009
First published:	June 2009
Authors:	Jeff McMahan
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-954866-8
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LSN:	0-19-954866-8
Barcode:	9780199548668