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Just and unjust warriors : the moral and legal status of soldiers / [edited by] David Rodin and Henry Shue.
- Title
- Just and unjust warriors : the moral and legal status of soldiers / [edited by] David Rodin and Henry Shue.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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- Description
- ix, 261 p.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? This is the question at the heart of a new debate that has the potential to profoundly change our understanding of the moral and legal status of warriors, wars, and indeed of moral agency itself. The debate pits a widely shared and legally entrenched principle of war - that combatants have equal rights and equal responsibilities irrespective of whether they are fighting in a war that just or unjust - against a set of striking new arguments. These arguments challenge the idea that there is a separation between the rules governing the justice of going to war (the jus ad bellum) and the rules governing what combatants can do in war (the jus in bello). If ad bellum and in bello rules are connected in the way these new arguments suggest, then many aspects of just war theory and laws of war would have to be rethought and perhaps reformed. This book contains eleven original and closely argued essays by leading figures in the ethics and laws of war and provides an authoritative treatment of this important new debate. The essays both challenge and defend many deeply held convictions: about the liability of soldiers for crimes of aggression, about the nature and justifiability of terrorism, about the relationship between law and morality, the relationship between soldiers and states, and the relationship between the ethics of war and the ethics of ordinary life."--Book cover.
- Alternative Title
- Moral and legal status of soldiers
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The morality of war and the law of war / Jeff McMahan -- The moral inequality of soldiers: why jus bello asymmetry is half right / David Rodin -- Fearful symmetry / Christopher Kutz -- Do we need a "morality of war"? / Henry Shue -- How to judge soldiers whose cause is unjust / Judith Lichtenberg -- Moral equality, victimhood, and the sovereignty symmetry problem / Cheyney Ryan -- The status of combatants / C. A. J. (Tony) Coady -- Is the independent application of jus in bello the way to limit war? / Anthony Coates -- Just war and regular war: competing paradigms / Gregory M. Reichberg -- A presumption of the moral equality of combatants: a citizen-soldier's perspective / Dan Zupan -- The principle of equal application of the laws of war / Adam Roberts.
- ISBN
- 9780199233120
- 0199233128
- LCCN
- ^^2008008564
- OCLC
- 213080128
- SCSB-10475004
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library