Killing in war

Resource Information

The work Killing in war represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Killing in war

Statement of responsibility

Jeff McMahan

Creator

• McMahan, Jeff

Subject

• Combat -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Conscientious objection
• Conscientious objection
• Doden
• Doden
• Ethiek
• Ethiek
• Ethik
• Kombattant
• Krieg
• Krieg
• Kriegführung
• Kriegsrecht (Völkerrecht)
• Krig -- etik och moral
• Military ethics
• Military ethics
• Militär etik
• Oorlog
• Oorlog
• Politische Philosophie
• Praktische Ethik
• Responsibility
• Responsibility
• Tötung
• Verantwortlichkeit
• War -- Moral and ethical aspects
• War -- Moral and ethical aspects
• töten
• Combat -- Moral and ethical aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--Publisher's description

Member of

• Uehiro series in practical ethics

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

U22

LC item number

.M394 2009

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Uehiro series in practical ethics.