1st Edition
Distributing the Harm of Just Wars In Defence of an Egalitarian Baseline
By Sara Van Goozen
Copyright 2021
202 Pages
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Routledge
202 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
202 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book argues that the risk of harm in armed conflict should be divided equally between combatants and enemy non-combatants.
International law requires that combatants in war take ‘all feasible precautions’ to minimise damage to civilian objects, injury to civilians, and incidental loss of civilian life. However, there is no clear explanation of what ‘feasible precautions’ means in this... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Intentions, Attitudes, and Treating People as Ends-In-Themselves
3. The Requirement to Minimise Merely Foreseen Harm
4. The Egalitarian Baseline Approach
5. Harming Civilians and the Associative Duties of Soldiers
6. Consent and the Requirement to Minimise Foreseen Harm
7. Non-Combatants and the Requirement to Minimise Foreseen Harm
8. Increasing Merely Foreseen Harm to Non-Combatants
9. Conclusion
Biography
Sara Van Goozen is Associate Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of York, UK.
