The Ethics of Self-Defense Page 1 International Journal of Risk and Contingency
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When and why is it right to kill? When and why is it wrong? Torbj? rn T? nnsj? examines
three theories on the ethics of killing in this book: deontology, a libertarian moral rights …

This book offers a philosophical analysis of the moral and legal justifications for the use of
force. While the book focuses on the ethics self-defense, it also explores its relation to lesser …

Are (unilateral) secessionists traitors? In this paper, I first set out an account of treason that
is, I argue, superior to competing accounts. This account is the disjunctive account, and it …

Can war be morally justified? What is the philosophy behind armed conflict? How do you
conduct an ethical war? And what guides military action as the nature of conflict changes …

In public discourse, activists are often criticized for directing their acts of political resistance
against this or that specific target. Underlying these criticisms appears to be a strongly held …

Helen Frowe depicts the following fictional case: Fran is being raped by Eric and can't stop
him with violent resistance. Nevertheless, she resists and breaks Eric's wrist. The infliction of …

Acts of futile resistance—harms against an aggressor which could not reasonably hope to
avert the threat the aggressor poses—give rise to a puzzle: on the one hand, many such acts …

This that, paper in contrast provides to a the conceptual widespread analysis"
instrumentalist" of the term" self-defense" account of self-defense, and argues that, in …

One motivation for adopting a justice-based view of the right to self-defense is that it seems
to solve the puzzle of how a victim may kill her attacker even when doing so is not predicted …