Killing in War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23398206 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Mcmahan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Pages | 250 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Killing in war (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199548668.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4252382080 |
| Open Library | OL23175214M |
| ISBN | 9780199548668 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 217 |
"Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause."--Publisher's description.
Action (physics) · Criminology · Just war theory · Morality · Permissive · Political science · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · State (computer science) · Free Will and Agency · Law · Medicine · Torture, Ethics, and Law · War, Ethics, and Justification · Combat · Conscientious objection · Döden · Ethiek · Just war doctrine · Military ethics · Moral and ethical aspects · Oorlog · Responsibility · War
Expanding Responsibility for the Just War
Environmental Ethics of War
Moral Predators
Justifying Resistance to Immigration Law
Forum
System Structure, Unjust War, and State Excusability
Retracted Article
A Contractualist Defense of Limited Moral Equality of Combatants
Modus tollens and the epistemic limits of moral intuition in bioethical reasoning
Environmental Activism and the Fairness of Costs Argument for Uncivil Disobedience
AWS compliance with the ethical principle of proportionality
Framing the Gamer’s Dilemma
Virtues and Rules in War
Respect for Rights and Liability to Defensive Harm
Against Moral Taint
Out of Proportion? On Surveillance and the Proportionality Requirement
Assessing Recent Agent-Based Accounts of Right Action (and More)
Military Training and Revisionist Just War Theory’s Practicability Problem
Targeted Killing, Assassination, and the Problem of Dirty Hands
Solidarity under duress
Revisiting the comparison between healthcare strikes and just war
Caution before condemnation
Starting and Stopping Wars
International Humanitarian Law and the Immunity of Hospitals in Gaza
Rethinking the Just Intelligence Theory of National Security Intelligence Collection and Analysis
On the Morality of Killing Human Shields
Morally Permissible Risk Imposition and Liability to Defensive Harm
Run, Hide, and Fight?! A Precautionary Business Ethics to Hold Manufacturers Accountable for Preventing Gun Violence
When are Customer Boycotts Permissible
Supererogatory and obligatory rescues
Rights
Proportionality and combat trauma
Manipulation and liability to defensive harm
Public war and the requirement of legitimate authority
Two grounds of liability
Unjust combatants, special authority, and “transferred responsibility”
The concept of responsibility in the ethics of self-defense and war
Rights reclamation
Costly authority and transferred responsibility
Offsetting and Risk Imposition
Proportionality in War
The Demands of Necessity
Drone warfare and morality in riskless war
From defence to offence
What Drives Support for Armed Humanitarian Intervention? Experimental Evidence From Dutch Citizens on International Law and Probability of Success
Israel’s Laws of War
Carl Schmitt and the analogy between constitutional and international law
High, Dry and Allied
What reading Montaigne during the Second World War can teach us about just war
The supreme emergency of war
The historical approach and the ‘war of ethics within the ethics of war’
Consequentialism, war, and national defense
Asking the fox to guard the chicken coop
When may soldiers participate in war
Just war theory after colonialism and the war on terror
Do attackers have a legal duty of care? Limits to the ‘individualization of war’
Aggression and the symmetrical application of International Humanitarian Law
The concept of violence in international theory
Just assassinations
Ethics and international law
Who owes what to war refugees
Jus interruptus bellum
Assembling an army
Grasping neither war nor peace
Not just war
Truce thinking and just war theory
Climate change and economic sanctions
Child soldiering on trial
Leadership in the ‘Wicked’ Problem of Bosnia’s civil war
The limited (but relevant) role of the doctrine of the double effect in the Just War Theory
Defiant heroism or wilful disobedience? John ‘Jack’ Hinton and the ethics of disobedience in war
Theory of War and Theology of Sacrifice in the Russian Orthodox Church
Corrective justice for the civilian victims of war
The contingent morality of war
On the significance of the basic structure
Sharing the costs of fighting justly
Fighting fire with fire
Casting the first stone
Compensatory justice and the wrongs of deportation
Supreme Emergencies’, ontological holism, and rights to communal membership
Dirty hands and the romance of the ticking bomb terrorist
Killing Civilians
War and peace in the age of AI
Sad and Laughable and Strange
The Role of Moral Experts in Secret Policy
The Spectrum of Liability to Defensive Harm and the Case of Child Soldiers
Should the Justification of Protest Depend on its Cause
Revolution Against Non-violent Oppression
The Teleological Account of Proportional Surveillance
Just war, human shields, and the 2023–24 Gaza War
The transformation of targeted killing and international order
Shooting to kill
Rights Forfeiture and Liability to Harm
The Special Moral Obligations of Law Enforcement
Reasonable Mistakes and Regulative Norms
The wrong of mercenarism
Ethical counterinsurgency, and the reciprocal nature of strategic ethics
Accountability and Intervening Agency
Consequentialism and the Case of Symmetrical Attackers
Reciprocity, Inequality, and Unsuccessful Rescues
| Unique citing works | 217 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 12,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 217 |