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Killing in War Hardcover - 2009 - 1st Edition

by Jeff McMahan


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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 in most cases it is morally wrong to fight in a war that is unjust.

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  • Title Killing in War
  • Author Jeff McMahan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 248
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher OUP UK, 2009. 264p. Hardback. Series: Uehiro Series in Practical Ethics. McMahan's outstanding and readable book Killing in War.. .
  • Date 2009-06-08
  • ISBN 9780199548668 / 0199548668
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.9 in (21.59 x 14.22 x 2.29 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects War - Moral and ethical aspects, Responsibility
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009008807
  • Dewey Decimal Code 172.42

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Jeff McMahan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He works primarily in ethics and political philosophy, and occasionally in metaphysics and legal theory.
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