Social ontology and war

Seumas Miller

doi:10.1002/9781118869109.ch14

Social ontology and war

Seumas Miller

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This chapter addresses three related issues: (1) Debates between individualists and collectivists regarding the ontological nature of armed forces engaged in war; (2) The ontological nature of the moral rights and collective moral responsibilities of armed forces engaged in war; (3) The implications of individualist and collectivist ontological theories for the application in war of the principles of necessity, proportionality and discrimination.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	A companion to applied philosophy
Editors	Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen, Kimberley Brownlee, David Coady
Place of Publication	United States
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Chapter	14
Pages	196-210
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118869123
ISBN (Print)	9781118869130
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118869109.ch14
Publication status	Published - 2017

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