Killing in War

by Jeff McMahan

Book Overview

Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199548668
• ISBN13: 9780199548668
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.5"