Expanding Responsibility for the Just War

Auteur

Rosemary Kellison is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of West Georgia. A scholar of comparative religious ethics, she has published in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Soundings, and the Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.

Texte du rabat

This feminist critique of just war reasoning argues for an expansion of responsibility for harms inflicted on civilians in war.

Résumé
This book is of interest to feminist philosophers as well as scholars of religious ethics, ethics of war, and peace studies. It is focused on the moral problem of harms inflicted on civilians during war, including how to prevent, assign responsibility for, and repair such harms.

Contenu

1. Feminist ethics; 2. Necessity and the evasion of responsibility; 3. Relational personhood and the violence of war; 4. Intention matters; 5. From evading to expanding responsibility; 6. Taking responsibility for harmdoing in war.