Description
| Product ID: | 9780199603572 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics |
| Title: | Killing in War |
| Authors: | Author: Jeff McMahan |
| Page Count: | 272 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of language, Philosophy of language, Ethics and moral philosophy, Social and political philosophy, Political science and theory, Ethics & moral philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Publisher Name: | Oxford University Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2011-02-03 |
