Moral Exceptionalism and the Just War Tradition: Walzer’s Instrumentalist Approach and an Institutionalist Response to McMahan’s “Nazi Military” Problem

The conventional view of Just War thinking holds that militaries operate under “special” moral rules in war. Conventional Just War thinking establishes a principled approach to such moral exceptionalism in order to prevent arbitrary or capricious uses of military force. It relies on the notion that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ford, Shannon
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89987