How we fight : ethics in war / edited by Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang.

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TextSeries: Mind Association occasional seriesPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xxxii, 196 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780191654381
0191654388
9780191751707
0191751707

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: How we fight.DDC classification:

172.4 23 22

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U22 .H69 2014eb

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Cover; How We Fight; MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Varieties of Contingent Pacifism in War; 2 Punitive War; 3 Why Not Forfeiture?; 4 Self-Defence, Just War, and a Reasonable Prospect of Success*; 5 Self-Defense, Resistance, and Suicide; 6 Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defense?*; 7 Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners; 8 Just War Theory, Intentions, and the Deliberative Perspective Objection; 9 Risking and Protecting Lives Soldiers and Opposing Civilians

Summary: How We Fight: Ethics in War contains ten groundbreaking essays by some of the leading philosophers of war. The essays offer new perspectives on key debates including pacifism, punitive justifications for war, the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants, the structure of 'just war theory', and bases of individual liability in war.

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These papers arose from a conference on just war theory held at the University of Sheffield in August 2010--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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How We Fight: Ethics in War contains ten groundbreaking essays by some of the leading philosophers of war. The essays offer new perspectives on key debates including pacifism, punitive justifications for war, the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants, the structure of 'just war theory', and bases of individual liability in war.

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