Killing in War

Name: Killing in War
Brand: Oxford University Press
SKU: 9780199603572
Price: 4300 KES
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ISBN: 9780199603572

by Jeff McMahan

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics

ISBN-10 019960357X

ISBN-13 9780199603572

Publisher Oxford University Press

Imprint Oxford University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 3rd, 2011

Print length 272 Pages

Weight 340 grams

Dimensions 14.30 x 21.60 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Philosophy of language Ethics & moral philosophy Social & political philosophy Political science & theory Political science and theory Ethics and moral philosophy Social and political philosophy

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Jeff McMahan urges us to reject the view, dominant throughout history, that mere participation in an unjust war is not wrong. He argues powerfully that combatants who fight for an unjust cause are acting wrongly and are themselves morally responsible for their actions. We must rethink our attitudes to the moral role of the individual in war.

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.

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