How we fight : ethics in war /

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Bibliographic Details
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource (xxxii, 196 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Mind Association occasional series Mind Association occasional series.
Subject:	War -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses. Peace -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses. War (Philosophy) -- Congresses. Just war doctrine -- Congresses. Just war doctrine. Peace -- Moral and ethical aspects. War -- Moral and ethical aspects. War (Philosophy) Electronic books. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015118

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Other authors / contributors:	Frowe, Helen, editor. Lang, Gerald R., editor.
ISBN:	9780191654381 0191654388 9780191751707 0191751707 9780199673438 0199673438
Notes:	These papers arose from a conference on just war theory held at the University of Sheffield in August 2010--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	How We Fight: Ethics in War contains ten groundbreaking essays by some of the leading philosophers of war. The essays offer new perspectives on key debates including pacifism, punitive justifications for war, the distribution of risk between combatants and non-combatants, the structure of 'just war theory', and bases of individual liability in war.
Other form:	Print version: How we fight. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014 9780199673438

Table of Contents:

Cover; How We Fight; MIND ASSOCIATION OCCASIONAL SERIES; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Varieties of Contingent Pacifism in War; 2 Punitive War; 3 Why Not Forfeiture?; 4 Self-Defence, Just War, and a Reasonable Prospect of Success*; 5 Self-Defense, Resistance, and Suicide; 6 Are Justified Aggressors a Threat to the Rights Theory of Self-Defense?*; 7 Self-Defense Against Justified Threateners; 8 Just War Theory, Intentions, and the Deliberative Perspective Objection; 9 Risking and Protecting Lives Soldiers and Opposing Civilians

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