Kant and the Law of War

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Arthur Ripstein (Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor, Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor, University of Toronto)

Kant and the Law of War

Arthur Ripstein (Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor, Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor, University of Toronto)

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English

Oxford University Press Inc
26 April 2022

Social & political philosophy; Jurisprudence & philosophy of law; Legal skills & practice

The past two decades have seen renewed scholarly and popular interest in the law and morality of war. Positions that originated in the late Middle Ages through the seventeenth century have received more sophisticated philosophical elaboration. Although many contemporary writers appeal to ideas drawn from Kant's moral philosophy, his explicit discussions of war have not yet been brought into their proper place in these debates. Ripstein argues that a special morality governs war because of its distinctive immorality: the wrongfulness of entering or remaining in a condition in which force decides everything provides the standards for evaluating the grounds of initiating war, the ways in which wars are fought, and the results of past wars.

The book is a major intervention into just war theory from the most influential contemporary interpreter and exponent of Kant's political and legal theories. Beginning from the difference between governing human affairs through words and through force, Ripstein articulates a Kantian account of the state as a public legal order in which all uses of force are brought under law.

Against this background, he provides innovative accounts of the right of national defence, the importance of conducting war in ways that preserve the possibility of a future peace, and the distinctive role of international institutions in bringing force under law.

By: Arthur Ripstein (Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor University of Toronto)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 165mm, Width: 241mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780197604205
ISBN 10: 019760420X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 26 April 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Arthur Ripstein is Professor of Law and Philosophy and University Professor at the University of Toronto, where he holds the Howard Beck QC Chair in law. He was educated at the Universities of Manitoba (BA) and Pittsburgh (PhD) and Yale Law School. He was awarded the 2021 Killam Prize for the Humanities by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Reviews for Kant and the Law of War

Ripstein ... done a great service to the philosophical debate on the morality of war. * Lior Erez, Haifa University, Israel, Springer Nature Switzerland *