The Just War Tradition and the Moral Reality of War: A Principled Approach to Moral Exceptionalism

The conventional view of just war thinking holds that militaries operate under “special” moral rules in war. It treats military combatants according to a moral standard different from the everyday standard. Soldiers are morally permitted to kill enemy soldiers, and vice versa, because both parties h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ford, Shannon
Format: Conference Paper
Published: 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/76894