The mechanics of claims and permissible killing in war / Alec D. Walen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walen, Alec, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Self-defense (International law)--Philosophy.

Self-defense (International law).

Self-defense (Law)--Philosophy.

Self-defense (Law).

Just war doctrine--Philosophy.

Just war doctrine.

War--Moral and ethical aspects.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 242 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

This text operates on two levels. On the more practical level, its overarching concern is to answer the question, When is it permissible to use lethal force to defend people against threats? The deeper concern of the work, however, is to lay out and defend a new account of rights, the mechanics of claims. This framework constructs rights from the premise that rights provide a normative space in which people can pursue their own ends while treating each other as free and equal fellow-agents whose welfare morally matters.

Contents:

Introduction

Basic premises and method

A theory of rights

Putting the mechanics of claims in perspective

Avoiding a misplaced emphasis on intentions

Innocent threats versus innocent bystanders

From innocent threats to innocently aiding unjust combatants

Negative agent-claims and the agent-patient inference

Intervening agency and the right of non-sacrifice

Conclusions.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-087206-3

0-19-087207-1

0-19-087205-5

9780190872052