Killing in war / (Record no. 10726)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 2011378396
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199603572
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Original cataloging agency DLC
Transcribing agency DLC
Modifying agency NEMB
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 241.6242/MAC
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McMahan, Jefferson.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Killing in war /
Statement of responsibility, etc. Jefferson McMahan.
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement Paperback ed.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford, UK :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Clarendon Press ;
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 250 p.
Other physical details pbk ;
Dimensions 23 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Uehiro series in practical ethics
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note The morality of participation in an unjust war -- The doctrine of the moral equality of combatants -- The traditional criterion of liability to attack in war -- Can unjust combatants satisfy the principles of Jus in Bello? -- The basis of moral liability to attack in war -- Arguments for the moral equality of combatants -- Justification and liability -- Consent -- The boxing match model of war -- The gladiatorial combat model of war -- Hypothetical consent -- The epistemic argument -- Institutions as sources of justification -- The duty to defer to the epistemic authority of the government -- The duty to sustain the efficient functioning of just institutions -- Fairness to fellow participants -- The collectivist approach to the morality of war -- Transferred responsibility -- Symmetrical disobedience -- Conscientious refusal -- Excuses -- Sources of allegiance to the moral equality of combatants -- The conflation of morality and law -- The conflation of permission and excuse -- Excusing conditions for unjust combatants -- Duress -- Epistemic limitation -- Diminished responsibility -- Skepticism about excusing unjust combatants -- Consistency -- Are unjust combatants excused by epistemic limitations? -- Liability and the limits of self-defense -- Different types of threat -- The relevance of excuses to killing in self-defense -- Culpable threats -- Partially excused threats -- Excused threats and innocent threats -- Nonresponsible threats -- Justified threats and just threats -- Liability to defensive attack -- The moral status of unjust combatants -- Liability and punishment -- The relevance of excuses to the distribution of risk -- Child soldiers -- Civilian immunity and civilian liability -- The moral and legal foundations of civilian immunity -- The possible bases of civilian liability -- Civilian liability to lesser and collateral harms -- Can civilians be liable to intentional military attack? -- Civilian liability and terrorism.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element War
General subdivision Moral and ethical aspects.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Combat
General subdivision Moral and ethical aspects.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Military ethics.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Conscientious objection.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Responsibility.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Available   The Emmaus Library The Emmaus Library   09/06/2011 Amazon.com 23.95   241.6242/MAC 10527 30/04/2015 1 55.00 09/06/2011 Book