War Ethics Old and New

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War Ethics Old and New
Angela Kallhoff
In recent years, just war theory has been overhauled to a significant extent. In the 1970ies, the approach to just and unjust wars reasoned by Michael Walzer figured as a milestone in the ethics of war. Since then, the ethics of war has broadened and opened up new terrain in a variety of ways. In accordance with Herfried Münkler’s diagnosis of the completely new face of recent wars, including globalized economic wars and civil wars, the ethics of war concerns new scenarios of warfare. This talk will first explain the standard theory of just war that cumulates in Walzer’s theory of just and unjust wars. It then addresses as an important recent turn in just war theory the liability-criterion of Jeff McMahan. This proposal has led to an “individualization of warfare” which has several facets.
Period11 Dec 2019
Event titleMKE Ringvorlesung "Ethik und Verantwortung in Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft" · Kompetenzzentrum Ethik in München, an der LMU
Event typeLecture series, colloquium
LocationMünchen, GermanyShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

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