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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Rodin |
| ISBN: | 0199257744 9780199257744 0199275416 9780199275410 |
| OCLC Number: | 50334005 |
| Description: | xvi, 213 p. : ill., ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: The argument -- The status of moral claims -- War and consequentialism -- Part I: Self-defense -- Rights -- Hohfeld's building blocks -- Logical structure of rights -- Having a right and being in the right -- Justification and excuse -- Model of defensive rights -- A three-legged stool -- Defense as a derivative right -- Limits on the right: necessity, imminence, proportionality -- Bounds of proportionality -- Consequences and forced choice -- The lesser evil -- Forced choice -- The resilience of responsibility -- Grounding self-defense in rights -- Forfeiture and rights of limited scope -- The role of fault -- Innocent threats and innocent aggressors -- Objective wrongdoing -- Moral subjects -- Variety of excuses -- Part II: National-defense -- International law -- National-defense in international law -- Limits of the right -- Need for a normative foundation -- War and defense of persons -- Two levels of war -- Reductive strategy -- Imminent and conditional threats -- War and the protection of persons -- War and the common life -- Political association -- The character of common lives -- Communal integrity and self-determination -- Myth of descrete communities -- War, responsibility, and law enforcement -- Paradox in the just war theory -- Responsibility of soldiers -- War and law enforcement -- Argument for a universal state -- Conclusion: Morality and realism. |
| Responsibility: | David Rodin. |
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Related Subjects:(15)
- Self-defense (International law)
- War (International law)
- Bellum justum.
- Oorlogsrecht.
- Zelfverdediging.
- Légitime défense (Droit international)
- Légitime défense -- Aspect moral.
- Guerre (Droit international)
- Guerre (Philosophie)
- Selbstverteidigung <Völkerrecht>
- Krieg.
- Verteidigung.
- Ethik.
- Légitime défense (droit international).
- Guerre (droit international).

