Evaluating the Revisionist Critique of Just War Theory

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dc.contributor.authorLazar, Seth
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-16T23:37:16Z
dc.date.available2021-06-16T23:37:16Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.updated2020-11-23T10:30:31Z
dc.description.abstractModern analytical just war theory starts with Michael Walzer's defense of key tenets of the laws of war in his Just and Unjust Wars. Walzer advocates noncombatant immunity, proportionality, and combatant equality: combatants in war must target only combatants; unintentional harms that they inflict on noncombatants must be proportionate to the military objective secured; and combatants who abide by these principles fight permissibly, regardless of their aims. In recent years, the revisionist school of just war theory, led by Jeff McMahan, has radically undermined Walzer's defense of these principles. This essay situates Walzer's and the revisionists' arguments, before illustrating the disturbing vision of the morality of war that results from revisionist premises. It concludes by showing how broadly Walzerian conclusions can be defended using more reliable foundations.en_AU
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/237754
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dc.provenanceThis is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits copying and redistributing the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only. For a full description of the license, please visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en_AU
dc.publisherAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciencesen_AU
dc.rights© 2017 by the American Academy of Arts & Sciencesen_AU
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dc.sourceDaedalusen_AU
dc.source.urihttps://direct.mit.edu/daed/article/146/1/113/27135/Evaluating-the-Revisionist-Critique-of-Just-Waren_AU
dc.titleEvaluating the Revisionist Critique of Just War Theoryen_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage124en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage113en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationLazar, Seth, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidLazar, Seth, u4925261en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor220319 - Social Philosophyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970122 - Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studiesen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu8205243xPUB933en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume146en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1162/DAED_a_00426en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85009187861
local.identifier.thomsonID000403207200009
local.publisher.urlhttps://direct.mit.eduen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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