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Defensive Killing
Helen Frowe offers a new account of when and why it is morally permissible for a person to use force to defend herself or others against harm. She explores the use of force between individuals before extending the enquiry to war, to argue that we should judge the ethics of killing in war by the moral rules that govern killing between individuals.
| Author(s) | By Helen Frowe (University of Stockholm). |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 240 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 27 Sept 2018 |
| Availability | Available |
Helen Frowe offers a new account of when and why it is morally permissible for a person to use force to defend herself or others against harm. She explores the use of force between individuals before extending the enquiry to war, to argue that we should judge the ethics of killing in war by the moral rules that govern killing between individuals.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1: Threats and Bystanders 2: Killing Innocent Threats 3: Moral Responsibility and Liability to Defensive Harm 4: Liability and Necessity 5: War and Self-Defence 6: Non-Combatant Liability 7: Non-Combatant Immunity 8:
Helen Frowe is Wallenberg Academy Research Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Stockholm, where she directs the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. She is the author of The Ethics of War and Peace: An Introduction (Routledge, 2011), an
