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Ethics Matters in War: Cecile Fabre and Jeff McMahan
13 February 2014, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
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Ethics Matters in War
Thursday 13 February; 6.30-8pm
Hong Kong Theatre; Clement House; LSE
Cecile Fabre; Professor of Political Philosophy;
University of Oxford
Jeff McMahan; Professor of Philosophy; Rutgers University
Chair: Gabriel Wollner; Assistant Professor; Department
of Philosophy; Logic and Scientific Method; LSE
and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow
The 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of World War I
reminds us of the importance of ethics in war. Under what
conditions may states wage war on each other? And
what are the moral principles governing the conduct of
war? Cecile Fabre and Jeff McMahan will argue that
traditional answers to these questions fail to convince:
Traditional just war theory stands in need of revision and
the role of ethics in war needs to be reconsidered