War and Moral Responsibility
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Act of state doctrine
Aggression
Ambiguity (law)
Analogy
Anguish
Anti-personnel weapon
Anti-social behaviour order
Appeasement
Attempt
Belligerent
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Collective punishment
Collective responsibility
Combatant
Command responsibility
Conscientious objector
Conscription
Consideration
Crime against peace
Crimes of War
Decision-making
Declaration of war
Demagogue
Deontological ethics
Deterrence theory
Dirty hands
Distributive justice
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Essence of Decision
Ethical dilemma
Ethics
Foreign policy
Hostility
International law
Just war theory
Law of war
Military justice
Military necessity
Military operation
Military policy
Moral absolutism
Moral imperative
Moral reasoning
Moral responsibility
Morality
Nazism
Obligation
Pacifism
Philosophy
Politics as a Vocation
Precedent
Prisoner of war
Probable cause
Public international law
Relativism
Reprisal
Requirement
Respondeat superior
Ruler
Selective Service System
Summary execution
Superior orders
Thought
Tort
Tribunal
Utilitarianism
War
War crime
War effort
Warfare
World War II
Wrongdoing
Product details
- ISBN 9780691019802
- Weight: 198g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jul 1974
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This remarkably rich collection of articles focuses on moral questions about war. The essays, originally published in Philosophy & Public Affairs, cover a wide range of topics from several points of view by writers from the fields of political science, philosophy, and law. The discussion of war and moral responsibility falls into three general categories: problems of political and military choice, problems about the relation of an individual to the actions of his government, and more abstract ethical questions as well. The first category includes questions about the ethical and legal aspects of war crimes and the laws of war; about the source of moral restrictions on military methods or goals; and about differences in suitability of conduct which may depend on differences in the nature of the opponent. The second category includes questions about the conditions for responsibility of individual soldiers and civilian officials for war crimes, and about the proper attitude of a government toward potential conscripts who reject its military policies.
The third category includes disputes between absolutist, deontological, and utilitarian ethical theories, and deals with questions about the existence of insoluble moral dilemmas
