Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
War and legitimate targets
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy.
2019 (English)In: Ethics in the Contemporary World / [ed] David Edmonds, Routledge, 2019, p. 69-81Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

War is certainly an especially complex and dangerous endeavour, but these facts do not generate special moral principles, any more than natural disasters or outbreaks of disease generate special moral principles. Individualists hold that moral evaluations and prescriptions are properly directed towards individuals, addressing their rights and duties. A more permissive stance towards the range of legitimate targets for just combatants will be taken to apply to unjust combatants as well. In contrast, contributions that specifically enable combatants to fight, rather than live, can ground liability, and render a civilian a legitimate target. Civilians make many indirect contributions to the unjust threats posed by the members of their armed forces. They provide, amongst other things, weapons, vehicles, specialist clothing, food, medical supplies and money. Jeff McMahan and Cecile Fabre argue that even if civilians contribute to unjust wars, their contributions are typically too small or insignificant to render lethal force a proportionate response.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2019. p. 69-81
Keywords [en]
War, Civilian Immunity, Just War Theory, Discrimination, Liability
National Category
Philosophy
Research subject
Philosophy
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-185026ISBN: 9781138092013 (print)ISBN: 9781315107752 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-185026DiVA, id: diva2:1466794
Funder
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, 1521101Available from: 2020-09-14 Created: 2020-09-14 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Authority records

Frowe, Helen

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Frowe, Helen
By organisation
Department of Philosophy
Philosophy

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

isbn
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

isbn
urn-nbn
Total: 35 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf