War By Agreement

A Contractarian Ethics of War

Daniel Statman author Yitzhak Benbaji author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:9th Oct '19

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War By Agreement cover

War by Agreement presents a new theory on the ethics of war. It shows that wars can be morally justified at both the ad bellum level (the political decision to go to war) and the in bello level (its actual conduct by the military)by accepting a contractarian account of the rules governing war. According to this account, the rules of war are anchored in a mutually beneficial and fair agreement between the relevant players - the purpose of which is to promote peace and to reduce the horrors of war. The book relies on the long social contract tradition and illustrates its fruitfulness in understanding and developing the morality and the law of war.

Valuable contribution to the already well-saturated literature on the morality of war — an achievement in and of itself. * Lior Erez, Haifa University, Israel, Springer Nature Switzerland *

ISBN: 9780199577194

Dimensions: 240mm x 159mm x 19mm

Weight: 504g

230 pages