Self-Defense and the Obligations to Kill and to Die

Ethics and International Affairs

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 69-74

  Ryan, Cheyney C ^a  

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EID: 34248057362     PISSN: 08926794     EISSN: 17477093     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7093.2004.tb00452.x     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. David Rodin, War and Self-Defense (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). All in-text citation references are to this book.
2. An excellent introduction to these issues is J. G. A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975).
3. Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace and Other Essays on Politics, History, and Morals, ed. Ted Humphrey (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1983), p. 108.
4. Randolph Bourne, War and the Intellectuals, ed. Carl Resek (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), p. 17.
5. David Rodin, War and Self-Defense (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003). All in-text citation references are to this book.
6. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, ed. C. B. MacPherson (Baltimore, Md.: Penguin, 1968), pp. 269–70 and 718–19
7. John Locke, Two Treatises on Government (New York: New American Library, 1965), pp. 407–408.
8. Other excellent discussions are Michael Walzer, “The Obligation to Live for the State,” in Obligations (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970)
9. George Kateb, “The Liberal Contract: Individualism, War, and the Constitution,” in The Inner Ocean (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992).
10. I discuss these issues in “The State and Warmaking,” in John T. Sanders and Jan Narveson, eds., For and against the State: New Philosophical Readings (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).
11. See, e.g., F. H. Bradley, “My Station and Its Duties,” in Ethical Studies, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), pp. 164–65, where he states that no social contract theory “will explain except by the most palpable fictions” the right of the state to compel self-sacrifice.
12. Cited in William Manchester, American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 (New York: Dell, 1978), p. 262.
13. The discussion was initiated in S. L. A. Marshall, Men against Fire: The Problem of Battle Command (New York: William Morrow, 1947)
14. another good discussion is Richard Holmes, Firing Line (London: Penguin, 1986).