A CONTRACTUALIST DEFENSE OF LIMITED MORAL EQUALITY OF COMBATANTS.
The article focuses on defending a limited moral equality of combatants thesis within just war theory through a contractualist framework. It challenges revisionist critiques that deny any moral equality between just and unjust combatants by arguing that, under realistic empirical conditions—such as...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 597 - 627 |
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