Book chapter
Proportionate Killing
Weighing Lives in War
Oxford University Press
08/10/2017
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198796176.003.0007
Abstract
This chapter attempts to explain how liability and lesser-evil justifications can work together, in an individualist account of just war, to answer some difficult questions about fighting in war. It starts with a brief survey of other individualist attempts to make sense of jus in bello in general and proportionality in bello in particular. It argues that the traditional jus in bello conditions and the separation of labor between them can be helpful, as a model, for understanding exactly how liability and lesser-evil justifications are meant to work together to account for some of our intuitions regarding the more difficult cases of collective action and limited or minimal moral responsibility in war. One upshot of this account is that it gives us reasons to reject the view that a complex picture of justification for actions in war needs to commit us to pacifism.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Proportionate Killing
- Creators
- Jovana Davidovic
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Weighing Lives in War
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780198796176.003.0007
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/10/2017
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty; Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984398407702771
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