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The Ethics of War - Essays (Hardcover)
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The Ethics of War - Essays (Hardcover)
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Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians
of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a
framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts. To
this day, Just War theory informs the judgments of ethicists,
government officials, international lawyers, religious scholars,
news coverage, and perhaps most importantly, the public as a whole.
The influence of Just War theory is as vast as it is subtle - we
have been socialized into evaluating wars largely according to the
principles of this medieval theory, which, according to the eminent
philosopher David Rodin, is "one of the few basic fixtures of
medieval philosophy to remain substantially unchallenged in the
modern world". Some of the most basic assumptions of Just War
Theory have been dismantled in a barrage of criticism and analysis
in the first dozen years of the 21st century. "The Ethics of War"
continues and pushes past this trend. This anthology is an
authoritative treatment of the ethics and law of war by both the
eminent scholars who first challenged the orthodoxy of Just War
theory, as well as by new thinkers. The twelve original essays span
both foundational and topical issues in the ethics of war,
including an investigation of: whether there is a "greater-good"
obligation that parallels the canonical lesser-evil justification
in war; the conditions under which citizens can wage war against
their own government; whether there is a limit to the number of
combatants on the unjust side who can be permissibly killed;
whether the justice of the cause for which combatants fight affects
the moral permissibility of fighting; whether duress ever justifies
killing in war; the role that collective liability plays in the
ethics of war; whether targeted killing is morally and legally
permissible; the morality of legal prohibitions on the use of
indiscriminate weapons; the justification for the legal distinction
between directly and indirectly harming civilians; whether human
rights of unjust combatants are more prohibitive than have been
thought; the moral repair of combatants suffering from PTSD; and
the moral categories and criteria needed to understand the proper
justification for ending war.
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