[PDF.01hz] Killing in War (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)

Killing in War (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)

[PDF.lb96] Killing in War (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)

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 | #723487 in Books |  imusti |  2011-03-22 |  2011-03-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.30 x.50 x8.40l,.70 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Defending common sense when it's not so common|By NC|This is an excellent book on just war theory or the ethics of war. It touches on all major aspects of the current debates within the morality of war both the morality of going to war (jus ad bellum) and conduct in war (jus in bello). The major thesis is one that I don't find all that surprising but it maybe surprising to many| |from previous edition: "In this densely argued and superbly written volume, Jeff McMahan provides a comprehensive defence of the claim that moral liability to attack in war follows from responsibility for the threat of harm posed by a war fought without a ju

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...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Killing in War (Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics)   |  Jeff McMahan. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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