Morality of Defensive War
1st Edition
Published on 8. February 2014
273 pages
978-0-19-150531-7 (ISBN)
Description
Most of us take it for granted that wars in defence of one's political community are the quintessential just wars. Indeed, while in recent years philosophers have subjected all of our other assumptions about just war theory to radical revision, this principle has emerged largely unscathed. But what underpins the morality of defensive war? In this book, leading moral and political philosophers both show the profoundly challenging nature of that question, and advance novel answers to it. The first part exposes the deep tension between the individualist foundations of much contemporary philosophy and plausible conclusions about the morality of defensive war. The second part offers an individualist attempt to resolve that tension, while the third seeks to justify defensive war byappeal to more collectivist values.
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Cecile Fabre | Seth Lazar
The Morality of Defensive War
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02/2014
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Content
- Cover
- The Morality of Defensive War
- Series
- Copyright
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1 Introduction
- PART I
- 2 National Defence, Self-Defence, and the Problem of Political Aggression
- 3 Understanding the Political Defensive Privilege
- PART II
- 4 The Myth of National Self-Defence
- 5 Cosmopolitanism and Wars of Self-Defence*
- 6 What Rights May Be Defended by Means of War?
- PART III
- 7 Distributive Justice, Human Rights, and Territorial Integrity*
- 8 Collective Self-Determination, Institutions of Justice, and Wars of National Defence
- 9 Territorial Rights and National Defence*
- 10 Democracy, Defence, and the Threat of Intervention*
- Index
