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Author | : Bradley Jay Strawser |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2023-05-23 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0190692510 |
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Most people believe that killing someone, while generally morally wrong, can in some cases be a permissible act. Most people similarly believe that war, while awful, can be justified. Bradley Jay Strawser examines a set of related moral issues in war: when it is permissible to kill in defense of others; what moral responsibility would be required to be liable for such defensive killing; how that permission can extend to whole groups of people; and, lastly, what values undergird the permissibility of that defense, such as individual autonomy. Strawser argues for a rights-based account of permissible defensive harm and an 'evidence-relative' basis for the holding those responsible. His view is that in order to be properly responsible for an unjust harm to be justifiably killed, one must act wrongly according to the evidence available to them. Extending this view, Strawser explores how such a rights-based model can make sense of the wide-spread destructive harms of war. He endorses a revisionist approach to just war theory and argues in its defense; and he also shows how his evidence-relative account supports revisionist just war theory by better grounding it in the real world of modern warfare. Lastly, he offers a new proposal for how targeting in war could better align with respect for the rights of individual persons, and demonstrate how revisionist just war theory-and any rights-respecting just war account more broadly-could conceivably work in practical ways.
Author | : Ken Cuccinelli |
Publisher | : Forum Books |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-02-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0770437109 |
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli leads the historic fight against the unprecedented overreach of the federal government. With Obamacare and agencies like the EPA, the FCC, and the National Labor Relations Board attempting to exercise unprecedented control over the American people, the Obama Administration was breaking federal laws, ignoring federal courts, and violating the Constitution to achieve its goals of redistributing wealth, concentrating power in Washington, and rewarding its supporters. Without enough lawmakers in Washington devoted to protecting the rule of law to stop the federal government's liberty-stealing power grab, the battle had to be waged in an unprecedented way: from the states -- just as our Founding Fathers intended. The man who led the charge was Ken Cuccinelli, the first state attorney general to argue in federal court against Obamacare, an unapologetic defender of the Constitution, and a man admirers and detractors alike said "was tea party long before there was a Tea Party." The Last Line of Defense provides a behind-the-scenes account of the myriad of legal battles in which our states were the only instruments of resistance to federal abuses of power. It is a must-read for every patriot.
Author | : Michael Robillard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Civil-military relations |
ISBN | : 0190671459 |
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"Are contemporary soldiers exploited by the state and society which they defend? More specifically, have America's professional service members been uniquely exploited insofar as they have disproportionately carried the moral weight of America's collective war-fighting decisions since the inception of the all-volunteer force post-Vietnam and particularly since 9/11? In this work, Michael Robillard and Bradley Strawser argue that many of American soldiers have indeed been exploited in this unique way. By offering their original normative theory of 'moral exploitation'; the notion that persons or groups can be wrongfully exploited by being made to shoulder an excessive amount of moral responsibility, moral risk, and exposure to 'dirty hands', Robillard and Strawser make the case that such a state of affairs indeed describes America's present relationship with her military. By offering a thorough and in-depth analysis of some of the exploitative and misleading elements of present-day military recruitment, the pernicious civil-military divide existing between military members and the civilian principle both within the organs of government and the public at large, and the stifling effect that 'Thank You for Your Service', 'I support the troops' culture has had on serious public engagement concerning America's ongoing wars, Robillard and Strawser offer a tour de force of eye-opening arguments on the demoralizing state of affairs for the American soldier. They conclude by arguing for several normative and prudential prescriptions to help close this ever-widening fissure existing between America and its military and existing within America herself. In so doing, their work gives a much needed and urgent voice to America's other 1%"--
Author | : Talbot Brewer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1135707421 |
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Presents a sustained and original challenge to the orthodox understanding of the relationship between morality and voluntary choice. The two main theses of the book are that we can be morally responsible for aspects of our character that we have not chosen or otherwise authored, and that we can enter into interpersonal commitments to which we have not voluntarily consented.
Author | : United States. Department of the Army |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Courts-martial and courts of inquiry |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Garret Pagenstecher Olberding |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316513696 |
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Explores how sovereign space in early China was imagined and negotiated in the ancient world.
Author | : Elliott Anthony |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Criminal procedure |
ISBN | : |
Download A Treatise on the Law of Self Defense, Trial by Jury in Criminal Cases, and New Trials in Criminal Cases Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Thomas Johnson Michie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1084 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Crime |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Edouard Machery |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Concepts |
ISBN | : 019880752X |
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In Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds, Edouard Machery argues that resolving many traditional and contemporary philosophical issues is beyond our epistemic reach and that philosophy should re-orient itself toward more humble, but ultimately more important intellectual endeavors. Any resolution to many of these contemporary issues would require an epistemic access to metaphysical possibilities and necessities, which, Machery argues, we do not have. In effect, then, Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds defends a form of modal skepticism. The book assesses the main philosophical method for acquiring the modal knowledge that the resolution of modally immodest philosophical issues turns on: the method of cases, that is, the consideration of actual or hypothetical situations (which cases or thought experiments describe) in order to determine what facts hold in these situations. Canvassing the extensive work done by experimental philosophers over the last 15 years, Edouard Machery shows that the method of cases is unreliable and should be rejected. Importantly, the dismissal of modally immodest philosophical issues is no cause for despair - many important philosophical issues remain within our epistemic reach. In particular, reorienting the course of philosophy would free time and resources for bringing back to prominence a once-central intellectual endeavor: conceptual analysis.
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Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Internet |
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