Jeff McMahan

Killing in War

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Produktbeschreibung

Jeff McMahan urges us to reject the view, dominant throughout history, that mere participation in an unjust war is not wrong. He argues powerfully that combatants who fight for an unjust cause are acting wrongly and are themselves morally responsible for their actions. We must rethink our attitudes to the moral role of the individual in war.

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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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Produktdetails

• Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 335g
• ISBN-13: 9780199603572
• ISBN-10: 019960357X
• Artikelnr.: 32687441

Autorenporträt

Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He works primarily in ethics and political philosophy, and occasionally in metaphysics and legal theory.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Morality of Participation in an Unjust War
2: Arguments for the Moral Equality of Combatants
3: Excuses
4: Liability and the Limits of Self-Defense
5: Civilian Immunity and Civilian Liability