| Popis: |
In the first three chapters of the book, I laid out a rights-based account of permissible defensive harm, namely the Evidence-Relative Account. In this chapter, I step back and apply that rights-based approach to our understanding of the ethics of war as a collective enterprise. To do so, I review the fundamentals of just war theory, and dive head-long into the contemporary debate between so-called “traditionalist” and “revisionist” accounts. I contend that, despite the traditionalist approach, there is no good basis for treating the morality of war as somehow separate from the “everyday morality” that we examine other instances of killing. I offer a robust defense of the revisionist view more broadly, and specifically against what is known as the “responsibility dilemma.” This will set things up for proposing how we could apply the Evidence-Relative Account of liability to killing in war in this next chapter. |
