Rights-Based Justifications for Self-Defense: Defending a Modified Unjust Threat Account

I defend a modified rights-based unjust threat account for morally justified killing in self-defense. Rights-based moral justifications for killing in self-defense presume that human beings have a right to defend themselves from unjust threats. An unjust threat account of self-defense says that this...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ford, Shannon Brandt
Format: Journal Article
Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2022
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/90522