Culpable bystanders, innocent threats and the ethics of self-defense

Canadian Journal of Philosophy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 585-622

  Benbaji, Yitzhak ^a,b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Shalom Hartman Institute   (Israel)

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EID: 48749130251     PISSN: 00455091     EISSN: 19110820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00455091.2005.10716603     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. G. Fletcher, 'Proportionality and the Psychotic Aggressor,' Israel Law Review 8 (1973) 367-90
2. J. Thomson, 'Self-Defense,' Philosophy and Public Affairs 20 (1991) 283-310;
3. P. Robinson, 'A Theory of Justification,' UCLA Law Review 23 (1975) 266-92, at 278, n. 49;
4. J. McMahan, 'Self-Defense and the Problem of the Innocent Attacker,' Ethics 104 (1994) 252-90, at 278.
5. N. Zohar, 'Collective War and Individualistic Ethics: Against the Conscription of "Self-Defense,"' Political Theory 21 (1993) 606-22, at 608-9.
6. Cf. M. Otsuka, 'Killing the Innocent in Self-Defense,' Philosophy and Public Affairs 23 (1994) 74-94.
7. Zohar, 'Collective War and Individualistic Ethics,' 611-13
8. See M. Otuska, 'Killing the Innocent in Self-Defense,' Philosophy and Public Affairs 23 (1994) 74-94, at 79.
9. McMahan tends to bite the bullet. See J. McMahan, 'Self-Defense and Culpability,' forthcoming in Law and Philosophy; and 'The Basis of Moral Liability to Defensive Killing' Philosophical Issues 15 (2005) 386-405.
10. Cf. G.A. Cohen, 'Where the Action Is: On the Site of Distributive Justice,' Philosophy and Public Affairs 26 (1997) 1-27.
11. Jeff McMahan, The Ethics of Killing (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002), 237
12. Raz, The Morality of Freedom, 188.
13. See Jeremey Waldron, 'A Right to Do Wrong,' in Liberal Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1993), esp. 66, 77;
14. cf. W.G. Galston, 'On the Alleged Right to Do Wrong: A Response to Waldron,' Ethics 93 (1983), 320-4;
15. Waldron, 'Galston on Rights,' Ethics 93 (1983), 325-7;
16. and D. Enoch, 'A Right to Violate One's Duty,' Law and Philosophy 21 (2002), 361.
17. Cf. Judith Thomson, The Realm of Rights (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1990), 48.
18. See R. Nozick, Anarchy, State and Utopia (New York: Harper and Row 1974), ix.
19. See Thomson, 'In Defense of Abortion,' 63, where she discusses the Minimally Decent Samaritan.
20. See David Wiggins, Truth, Invention and the Meaning of Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976), 376;
21. W. Sinnott-Armstrong, '"Ought to Have" and "Could Have,"' Analysis 45 (1985), 323-4;
22. cf. R. Barcan Marcus, 'Moral Dilemmas and Consistencies,' Journal of Philosophy 77 (1980), 125.