02771cam a22002895a 4500 16785580 AU-EpEBC 20111017203611.0 110518s2011 enk b 001 0 eng 2011378396 9780199603572 DLC DLC NEMB 241.6242/MAC McMahan, Jefferson. Killing in war / Jefferson McMahan. Paperback ed. Oxford, UK : Clarendon Press ; 2011 250 p. pbk ; 23 cm. Uehiro series in practical ethics 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. War Moral and ethical aspects. Combat Moral and ethical aspects. Military ethics. Conscientious objection. Responsibility. ddc 10726 10726 0 0 ddc 0 0 241 Ethics MAIN MAIN OS 2011-06-09 Amazon.com 23.95 0 241.6242/MAC 10527 2015-04-30 00:00:00 1 55.00 2011-06-09 AM