Collective Responsibility for Unjust Wars

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ID6352877
AuthorsEndre Begby (0000-0002-4007-1925)
Year2012
Volume32
Issue2
Pages100-108
Publication date2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3268 • E-ISSN: 1467-9256
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9256.2012.01432.x
OpenAlexW1487580216
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited17

This article argues against Anna Stilz's recent attempt to solve the problem of citizens' collective responsibility in democratic states. I show that her solution could only apply to state actions that are (in legal terminology) unjustified but excusable. Stilz's marquee case – the 2003 invasion of Iraq – does not, I will argue, fit this bill; nor, in all likelihood, does any other case in recorded history. Thus, this article concludes, we may allow that Stilz's argument offers a theoretically cogent case for citizens' task-responsibility in democratic states (given the right conditions); it just so happens that few if any cases satisfy these conditions

Argument (complex analysis · Collective responsibility · Democracy · Epistemology · Law and economics · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Terminology · Computer Science · Global Peace and Security Dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification

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