How We Fight

Ethics in War
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-19-967343-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press (UK)

Buch, Englisch, 230 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

How We Fight: Ethics in War presents a substantial body of new work by some of the leading philosophers of war. The ten essays cover a range of topics concerned with both jus ad bellum (the morality of going to war) and jus in bello (the morality of fighting in war). Alongside explorations of classic in bello topics, such as the principle of non-combatant immunity and the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants, the volume also addresses ad bellum topics, such as pacifism and punitive justifications for war, and explores the relationship between ad bellum and in bello topics, or how the fighting of a war may affect our judgments concerning whether that war meets the ad bellum conditions. The essays take a keen interest in the micro-foundations of just war theory, and uphold the general assumption that the rules of war must be supported, if they are going to be supported at all, by the liability and non-liability of the individuals who are encompassed by those rules. Relatedly, the volume also contains work which is relevant to the moral justification of several moral doctrines used, either explicitly or implicitly, in just war theory: in the doctrine of double effect, in the generation of liability in basic self-defensive cases, and in the relationship between liability and the conditions which are normally appended to permissible self-defensive violence: imminence, necessity, and proportionality. The volume breaks new ground in all these areas.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frowe, Helen

Lang, Gerald

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Saba Bazargan: Varieties of Contingent Pacifism in War

- 2: Victor Tadros: Punitive War

- 3: Gerald Lang: Why Not Forfeiture?

- 4: Suzanne Uniacke: Self-Defence, Just War, and a Reasonable Prospect of Success

- 5: Frances M. Kamm: Self-Defense, Resistance, and Suicide: The Taliban Women

- 6: Adam Hosein: Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defence?

- 7: Jeff McMahan: Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners

- 8: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen: Just War Theory, Intentions, and the Deliberative Perspective Objection

- 9: Noam Zohar: Risking and Protecting Lives: Soldiers and Opposing Civilians

- 10: Helen Frowe: Non-Combatant Liability in War

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Frowe is Professor of Practical Philosophy and Wallenberg Academy Fellow at Stockholm University, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace.

Gerald Lang is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Leeds. He held previous appointments in Reading and Oxford. He has very wide-ranging interests in moral and political philosophy.