War, Torture and Terrorism : Ethics and War in the 21st Century, Paperback by...

War, Torture and Terrorism : Ethics and War in the 21st Century, Paperback by Rodin, David (EDT), ISBN 140517398X, ISBN-13 9781405173988, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThis volume collects nine papers examining the ethics of war as a subfield of moral philosophy. Topics include the application of Bernard Williams's moral luck theory to the justification of war; the relative validity of national defense arguments as modified by the nature of the state in question; moral defenses of "humanitarian intervention" and the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty; a defense of the Iraq war as morally justified even if one accepts that there were no weapons of mass destruction, that Bush and Blair intentionally deceived their respective publics on the weapons issues, and that the war represented an illegal act of aggression; so-called targeted killing as a legitimate form of self-defense under the demands of necessity, utility, and proportionality; and arguments against Alan Dershowitz's "torture warrants" and the "ticking time bomb" justification for torture. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()