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According to the dominant account of rights, there are two ways to permissibly kill people: they have done something to forfeit their right to life, or their rights are outweighed by the significantly greater cost of respecting them. Contemporary just war theorists tend to agree that it is difficult to justify killing in the second way. Thus, they focus on the conditions under which rights might be forfeited. But it has proven hard to defend an account of forfeiture that permits killing when and only when it is morally justifiable. In The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War, Alec D. Walen develops an alternative account of rights according to which rights forfeiture has a much smaller role to play. It plays a smaller role because rights themselves are more contextually contingent. They systematically reflect the different kinds of claims people can make on an agent. For example, those who threaten to cause harm without a right to do so have weaker claims not to be killed than innocent bystanders or those who have a right to threaten to cause harm. By framing rights as the output of a balance of competing claims, and by laying out a detailed account of how to balance competing claims, Walen provides a more coherent account of when killing in war is permissible.
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: Philosophy |
Author |
: Alec D. Walen |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2019-03-15 |
File |
: 265 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190872052 |
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According to the dominant account of rights, there are two ways to permissibly kill people: they have done something to forfeit their right to life, or their rights are outweighed by the significantly greater cost of respecting them. Contemporary just war theorists tend to agree that it is difficult to justify killing in the second way. Thus, they focus on the conditions under which rights might be forfeited. But it has proven hard to defend an account of forfeiture that permits killing when and only when it is morally justifiable. In The Mechanics of Claims and Permissible Killing in War, Alec D. Walen develops an alternative account of rights according to which rights forfeiture has a much smaller role to play. It plays a smaller role because rights themselves are more contextually contingent. They systematically reflect the different kinds of claims people can make on an agent. For example, those who threaten to cause harm without a right to do so have weaker claims not to be killed than innocent bystanders or those who have a right to threaten to cause harm. By framing rights as the output of a balance of competing claims, and by laying out a detailed account of how to balance competing claims, Walen provides a more coherent account of when killing in war is permissible.
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: Philosophy |
Author |
: Alec D. Walen |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Release |
: 2019-03-15 |
File |
: 352 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780190872069 |
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: WALEN. |
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: Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190872071 |
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This anthology of 42 readings begins with the author's thorough introduction to the history and theories of biomedical ethics. The readings that follow include the physician-patient relationship, reproductive rights, and technologies, genetics, as well as death and dying.
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Genre |
: Education |
Author |
: Walter Glannon |
Publisher |
: Wadsworth Publishing Company |
Release |
: 2001 |
File |
: 486 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015058237531 |
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: War |
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: 2007 |
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: 208 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: STANFORD:36105063781764 |
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With reference to India.
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: Christianity and justice |
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: George Therukattil |
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: |
Release |
: 2000 |
File |
: 272 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015054245728 |
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: Electronic journals |
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: 2018 |
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: 664 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UIUC:30112124993921 |
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Genre |
: Human rights |
Author |
: Peter Koller |
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: Holder Pichler Tempsky |
Release |
: 1997 |
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: 440 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015049507778 |
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Genre |
: Medical |
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: Tom Regan |
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: |
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: 1980 |
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: 376 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39076001334536 |
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: Philosophy |
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: Tom L. Beauchamp |
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: |
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: 1986 |
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: 470 Pages |
ISBN-13 |
: UOM:39015056498069 |