Killing in War

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Jeff McMahan

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Series:

Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics

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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.

Author Biography:

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

Release date NZ

February 3rd, 2011

Author

Jeff McMahan

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

272

Series

Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics

Dimensions

136x214x17

ISBN-13

9780199603572

Product ID

9069790

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