David R Mapel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1101701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David R Mapel |
| GIVEN NAMES | David R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mapel |
| SIGNATURE | MAPEL D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
International Society
Moral Liability to Defensive Killing and Symmetrical Self‐defense
The Right of National Defense
This article argues that there are two justifications of the right of national defense. First, some states possess the right as a means of protecting legitimate domestic political institutions. Second, all states possess the right within a morally defensible form of international law. Critics have argued that the first justification does not explain why one legitimate state should have the right not to be attacked and conquered by another legitim…
Fairness, Political Obligation, and Benefits Across Borders
The fairness theory of political obligation holds that individuals who receive public goods produced by the cooperative efforts of their fellow citizens have a prima facie obligation to do their fair share in return by obeying the law. However, what happens when public benefits cross borders? In an interdependent world, have political obligations begun to extend across borders? According to some critics, fairness theory leads to the conclusion th…
Innocent Attackers and Rights of Self-Defense
Imagine that a neighboring state drafts an army of ignorant soldiers, makes them falsely believe that your state poses an imminent threat to their survival or political independence, and then launches them across your border. As a soldier, would you have a right to kill such attackers in self-defense or in defense of your country? In this brief comment, I will focus primarily on the question of whether one may kill “innocent attackers,” that is, …
Coerced Moral Agents? Individual Responsibility for Military Service
When is it Right to Rescue? A Response to Pasic and Weiss
Although humanitarian intervention is never politically neutral, Mapel maintains that this point can be overdrawn. Arguing that humanitarian agencies cannot always actively pursue political agendas, Mapel asserts that the objectives of such missions must be determined on a case-by-case basis. Pushing the issue a step further, he argues that in deciding whether there is an obligation to intervene, the nature of the conflict, the costs and risks of…
Traditions of International Ethics
This is the first comprehensive study of how different ethical traditions deal with the central moral problems of international affairs. Using the organising concept of a tradition, it shows that ethics offers many different languages for moral debate rather than a set of unified doctrines. Each chapter describes the central concepts, premises, vocabulary and history of a particular tradition and explains how that tradition has dealt with a set o…
The Contractarian Tradition and International Ethics
Although the contractarian tradition is relatively new compared to other traditions of ethical and political thought such as natural law, the idea of the social contract has frequently dominated modern political philosophy. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the tradition was developed and criticized by such influential thinkers as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its influence declined…
Military Intervention and Rights
Liberalism and the Moral Life. Nancy Rosenblum Liberalisms
Prudence and the Plurality of Value in International Ethics
When, if ever, is the prudent statesman justified in overriding the rules of common morality? Answers to this question reflect four general orientations in political theory: moral absolutism, political realism, virtue ethics, and consequentialism. To illustrate the inadequacy of all of these views, this paper focuses on a central problem in statecraft, namely, how the statesman should interpret the requirement of "proportionality" in the conduct …
Democratic Voluntarism & the Problem of Justifying Political Bonds
Is there a moral basis for political obligation? Recent democratic theorists have raised powerful objections to the very idea of a nonvoluntary duty to obey the state. Yet, this article contends, a satisfactory account of our political bonds must include the idea of voluntarily acquired obligations, as well as the idea of a rationally grounded, nonvoluntary moral duty to comply with just institutions. These duties, the author argues, are neither …
Civil Association and the Idea of Contingency
EVEN THOUGH MICHAEL OAKESHOTT is generally acknowledged as one of the most important conservative political philosophers of the twentieth century, his major work of political theory, On Human Conduct (HC), has been poorly received. The book's central idea of 'civil association' -a 'purposeless' form of association described as the only kind of polity to necessarily respect individual freedom has puzzled many readers and infuriated others. The see…
Books in Review
Books in Review
Books in Review
Traditions of International Ethics
This is the first comprehensive study of how different ethical traditions deal with the central moral problems of international affairs. Using the organising concept of a tradition, it shows that ethics offers many different languages for moral debate rather than a set of unified doctrines. Each chapter describes the central concepts, premises, vocabulary and history of a particular tradition and explains how that tradition has dealt with a set o…
Prudence and the Plurality of Value in International Ethics
When, if ever, is the prudent statesman justified in overriding the rules of common morality? Answers to this question reflect four general orientations in political theory: moral absolutism, political realism, virtue ethics, and consequentialism. To illustrate the inadequacy of all of these views, this paper focuses on a central problem in statecraft, namely, how the statesman should interpret the requirement of "proportionality" in the conduct …
Civil Association and the Idea of Contingency
EVEN THOUGH MICHAEL OAKESHOTT is generally acknowledged as one of the most important conservative political philosophers of the twentieth century, his major work of political theory, On Human Conduct (HC), has been poorly received. The book's central idea of 'civil association' -a 'purposeless' form of association described as the only kind of polity to necessarily respect individual freedom has puzzled many readers and infuriated others. The see…
Coerced Moral Agents? Individual Responsibility for Military Service
Military Intervention and Rights
The Right of National Defense
This article argues that there are two justifications of the right of national defense. First, some states possess the right as a means of protecting legitimate domestic political institutions. Second, all states possess the right within a morally defensible form of international law. Critics have argued that the first justification does not explain why one legitimate state should have the right not to be attacked and conquered by another legitim…
Fairness, Political Obligation, and Benefits Across Borders
The fairness theory of political obligation holds that individuals who receive public goods produced by the cooperative efforts of their fellow citizens have a prima facie obligation to do their fair share in return by obeying the law. However, what happens when public benefits cross borders? In an interdependent world, have political obligations begun to extend across borders? According to some critics, fairness theory leads to the conclusion th…
Moral Liability to Defensive Killing and Symmetrical Self‐defense
Innocent Attackers and Rights of Self-Defense
Imagine that a neighboring state drafts an army of ignorant soldiers, makes them falsely believe that your state poses an imminent threat to their survival or political independence, and then launches them across your border. As a soldier, would you have a right to kill such attackers in self-defense or in defense of your country? In this brief comment, I will focus primarily on the question of whether one may kill “innocent attackers,” that is, …
Democratic Voluntarism & the Problem of Justifying Political Bonds
Is there a moral basis for political obligation? Recent democratic theorists have raised powerful objections to the very idea of a nonvoluntary duty to obey the state. Yet, this article contends, a satisfactory account of our political bonds must include the idea of voluntarily acquired obligations, as well as the idea of a rationally grounded, nonvoluntary moral duty to comply with just institutions. These duties, the author argues, are neither …
Books in Review
Books in Review
Books in Review
Prudence and the Plurality of Value in International Ethics
When, if ever, is the prudent statesman justified in overriding the rules of common morality? Answers to this question reflect four general orientations in political theory: moral absolutism, political realism, virtue ethics, and consequentialism. To illustrate the inadequacy of all of these views, this paper focuses on a central problem in statecraft, namely, how the statesman should interpret the requirement of "proportionality" in the conduct …
Democratic Voluntarism & the Problem of Justifying Political Bonds
Is there a moral basis for political obligation? Recent democratic theorists have raised powerful objections to the very idea of a nonvoluntary duty to obey the state. Yet, this article contends, a satisfactory account of our political bonds must include the idea of voluntarily acquired obligations, as well as the idea of a rationally grounded, nonvoluntary moral duty to comply with just institutions. These duties, the author argues, are neither …
Civil Association and the Idea of Contingency
EVEN THOUGH MICHAEL OAKESHOTT is generally acknowledged as one of the most important conservative political philosophers of the twentieth century, his major work of political theory, On Human Conduct (HC), has been poorly received. The book's central idea of 'civil association' -a 'purposeless' form of association described as the only kind of polity to necessarily respect individual freedom has puzzled many readers and infuriated others. The see…
Military Intervention and Rights
Liberalism and the Moral Life. Nancy Rosenblum Liberalisms
Traditions of International Ethics
This is the first comprehensive study of how different ethical traditions deal with the central moral problems of international affairs. Using the organising concept of a tradition, it shows that ethics offers many different languages for moral debate rather than a set of unified doctrines. Each chapter describes the central concepts, premises, vocabulary and history of a particular tradition and explains how that tradition has dealt with a set o…
The Contractarian Tradition and International Ethics
Although the contractarian tradition is relatively new compared to other traditions of ethical and political thought such as natural law, the idea of the social contract has frequently dominated modern political philosophy. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the tradition was developed and criticized by such influential thinkers as Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its influence declined…
When is it Right to Rescue? A Response to Pasic and Weiss
Although humanitarian intervention is never politically neutral, Mapel maintains that this point can be overdrawn. Arguing that humanitarian agencies cannot always actively pursue political agendas, Mapel asserts that the objectives of such missions must be determined on a case-by-case basis. Pushing the issue a step further, he argues that in deciding whether there is an obligation to intervene, the nature of the conflict, the costs and risks of…
Coerced Moral Agents? Individual Responsibility for Military Service
Innocent Attackers and Rights of Self-Defense
Imagine that a neighboring state drafts an army of ignorant soldiers, makes them falsely believe that your state poses an imminent threat to their survival or political independence, and then launches them across your border. As a soldier, would you have a right to kill such attackers in self-defense or in defense of your country? In this brief comment, I will focus primarily on the question of whether one may kill “innocent attackers,” that is, …
Fairness, Political Obligation, and Benefits Across Borders
The fairness theory of political obligation holds that individuals who receive public goods produced by the cooperative efforts of their fellow citizens have a prima facie obligation to do their fair share in return by obeying the law. However, what happens when public benefits cross borders? In an interdependent world, have political obligations begun to extend across borders? According to some critics, fairness theory leads to the conclusion th…
The Right of National Defense
This article argues that there are two justifications of the right of national defense. First, some states possess the right as a means of protecting legitimate domestic political institutions. Second, all states possess the right within a morally defensible form of international law. Critics have argued that the first justification does not explain why one legitimate state should have the right not to be attacked and conquered by another legitim…
Moral Liability to Defensive Killing and Symmetrical Self‐defense
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