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How we fight : ethics in war / edited by Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mind Association occasional series.
- Mind Association occasional series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
- War.
- Peace--Moral and ethical aspects--Congresses.
- Peace.
- War (Philosophy)--Congresses.
- War (Philosophy).
- Just war doctrine--Congresses.
- Just war doctrine.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxii, 196 pages).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Ethics in war
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'How We Fight' contains ten groundbreaking essays by some of the leading philosophers of war, offering 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.
- Contents:
- Varieties of contingent pacifism in war / Saba Bazargan
- Punitive war / Victor Tadros
- Why not forfeiture? / Gerald Lang
- Self-defence, just war, and a reasonable prospect of success / Suzanne Uniacke
- Self-defense, resistance, and suicide : the Taliban women / F.M. Kamm
- Are justified aggressors a threat to the Rights Theory of self-defense? / Adam Hosein
- Self-defense against justified threateners / Jeff McMahan
- Just war theory, intentions, and the deliberative perspective objection / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
- Risking and protecting lives : soldiers and opposing civilians / Noam Zohar
- Non-combatant liability in war / Helen Frowe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-102278-0
- 0-19-175170-7
- 0-19-165438-8
- OCLC:
- 880147900
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