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The moral target : aiming at right conduct in war and other conflicts / F.M. Kamm.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kamm, F. M. (Frances Myrna), author.
- Series:
- Oxford Ethics Series
- Oxford ethics series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Moral and ethical aspects.
- War.
- Just war doctrine.
- Military ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 260 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Aiming at right conduct in war and other conflicts
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title comprises essays that discuss aspects of war and other conflicts in the light of nonconsequentialist ethical theory. The topics include the relation between conditions that justify starting war and those that justify stopping it, the treatment of combatants and noncombatants in war, and much more.
- Contents:
- Making war and its continuation unjust
- Conduct in war : justifications for killing noncombatants in war
- Conduct in war : failures of just war theory
- Conduct in war : the morality of killing in war
- Collaboration and with the enemy : harming some to save others from the Nazis
- Post conflict : moral improvisation and new obligations
- Post conflict : jus post bello, proportionality, and rehabilitation
- Terrorism and several moral distinctions
- Self defense, resistance, and suicide : the Taliban women
- Nuclear deterrence and noncombatants.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Nov. 13, 2012).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-049063-2
- 1-283-58178-7
- 9786613894236
- 0-19-989753-0
- OCLC:
- 817810640
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