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The inconsistent reduction: an internal methodological critique of revisionist just war theory

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2024
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Surber, R. S. (2024). The inconsistent reduction: an internal methodological critique of revisionist just war theory. Philosophia, 52(2), 355–378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-024-00733-5

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This article argues that the reduction of the morality of killing in war to the morality of killing in self-defense by ‘reductive-individualist’ revisionist just war theories is inconsistent, because when those theories apply the moral notion of self-defense to the morality of killing in war, they do not preserve the two conceptions of the “individual” inherent in this notion. The article demonstrates this inconsistency in two steps: First, it disentangles the two conceptions of the individual inherent to the notion of self-defense, n

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  • Surber, Regina Sibylle
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52

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2

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355

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378

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Just war theory, Ethics of war, Ethics of self-defense, Revisionist just war theory, · Reductive individualism, Individual rights

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English

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2024-05-03

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2024-05-22

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0048-3893

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Hybrid

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Surber, R. S. (2024). The inconsistent reduction: an internal methodological critique of revisionist just war theory. Philosophia, 52(2), 355–378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-024-00733-5

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