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Killing in war /

Main Author: McMahan, Jeff
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2009
Series:Uehiro series in practical ethics
Subjects:
War > Moral and ethical aspects
Combat > Moral and ethical aspects
Military ethics
Conscientious objection
Responsibility
Table of Contents:
  • The morality of participation in an unjust war
  • The doctrine of the moral equality of combatants
  • The traditional criterion of liability to attack in war
  • Can unjust combatants satisfy the principles of Jus in Bello?
  • The basis of moral liability to attack in war
  • Arguments for the moral equality of combatants
  • Justification and liability
  • Consent
  • The boxing match model of war
  • The gladiatorial combat model of war
  • Hypothetical consent
  • The epistemic argument
  • Institutions as sources of justification
  • The duty to defer to the epistemic authority of the government
  • The duty to sustain the efficient functioning of just institutions
  • Fairness to fellow participants
  • The collectivist approach to the morality of war
  • Transferred responsibility
  • Symmetrical disobedience
  • Conscientious refusal
  • Excuses
  • Sources of allegiance to the moral equality of combatants
  • The conflation of morality and law
  • The conflation of permission and excuse
  • Excusing conditions for unjust combatants
  • Duress
  • Epistemic limitation
  • Diminished responsibility
  • Skepticism about excusing unjust combatants
  • Consistency
  • Are unjust combatants excused by epistemic limitations?
  • Liability and the limits of self-defense
  • Different types of threat
  • The relevance of excuses to killing in self-defense
  • Culpable threats
  • Partially excused threats
  • Excused threats and innocent threats
  • Nonresponsible threats
  • Justified threats and just threats
  • Liability to defensive attack
  • The moral status of unjust combatants
  • Liability and punishment
  • The relevance of excuses to the distribution of risk
  • Child soldiers
  • Civilian immunity and civilian liability
  • The moral and legal foundations of civilian immunity
  • The possible bases of civilian liability
  • Civilian liability to lesser and collateral harms
  • Can civilians be liable to intentional military attack?
  • Civilian liability and terrorism

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