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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-007-0018-y

Just war and justice of war: Refl ections on ethics of war

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  • School of Politics and Administration, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China;

Published date: 05 Jun 2007

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Abstract

War can be defined as organized political violence among two or more nations. In accordance with the purpose, processes and results of war, the ethics of war generally comprises three aspects: right ethics, action ethics and duty ethics. The most important issue in ethics of war is justice . Justice  and injustice  as a conceptual pair do not prescribe the objective character of war but rather convey a subjective attitude and ethical position that have the potential to compel a populace to either support or oppose a war.

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ZUO Gaoshan . Just war and justice of war: Refl ections on ethics of war[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2007 , 2(2) : 280 -290 . DOI: 10.1007/s11466-007-0018-y

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