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A comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, it looks at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
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Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war. Does morality become more permissive in a state of war? Jeff McMahan argues that conditions in war make no difference to what morality permits and the justifications for killing people are the same in war as they are in other contexts, such as individual self-defence. This view is radically at odds with the traditional theory of the just war and has implications that challenge common sense views. McMahan argues, for example, that it is wrong to fight in a war that is unjust because it lacks a just cause.
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This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
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philosopher university professor
He completed a Bachelor degree in English literature at the University of the South (Sewanee), then did graduate work in philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He studied first under Jonathan Glover and Derek Parfit at the University of Oxford and was later supervised by Bernard Williams at the University of Cambridge, where he was a research fellow of Saint John's College from 1983 to 1986 and received his doctorate in 1986.
He has written extensively on normative and applied ethics.
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(A comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the...)
His publications include The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life (Oxford University Press, 2002), Killing in War (Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2009), which argues against foundational elements of the traditional theory of the just war, The Morality of Nationalism (co-edited with Robert McKim, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 1997), and Ethics and Humanity (co-edited with Ann Davis and Richard Keshen, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2010).
