On the Ethics of War and Terrorism - Steinhoff, Uwe
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Explains the basic tenets of just war theory and gives a critical account of its status and of the controversial debates surrounding it. This work argues that every single individual is a legitimate authority and has under certain circumstances the right to declare war on others or the state.
When can resorting to war be justified, and when not? Who is a legitimate target of attack, who is not - and why? Answering these questions, Uwe Steinhoff gives a succinct, precise and highly critical account of the present status of just war theory and of the most important and controversial current debates surrounding it.…mehr

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Explains the basic tenets of just war theory and gives a critical account of its status and of the controversial debates surrounding it. This work argues that every single individual is a legitimate authority and has under certain circumstances the right to declare war on others or the state.
When can resorting to war be justified, and when not? Who is a legitimate target of attack, who is not - and why? Answering these questions, Uwe Steinhoff gives a succinct, precise and highly critical account of the present status of just war theory and of the most important and controversial current debates surrounding it.
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Uwe Steinhoff, studied philosophy, psychology and politics in Frankfurt a.M., Berlin and Würzburg. He is the author of Kritik der kommunikativen Rationalität: Eine Darstellung und Kritik der kommunikationstheoretischen Philosophie von Jürgen Habermas und Karl-Otto Apel and of Effiziente Ethik: Über Rationalität, Selbsterschaffung, Politik und Postmoderne as well as of articles on ethics, political philosophy, epistemology and postmodernism. He is is a Research Associate in the Oxford Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War and an Affiliated Researcher at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.