Ch. 6 Just War, Justice Beyond Borders--Simon Caney
November-20-13
9:15 PM
Jus ad bellum: when war may be waged
Jus in bello: how war may be waged
Magistrate Ivanov's two types of moralities:
1.
Anti-vivisection: individuals are sacred, cannot be reduced to human units
2.
Vivisection: collective aims justify all means, humans can be reduced to
human units
Caney's two types of injustice:
1.
External wrongs: a political regime and its members are attacked by an
external agent
a.
Questions include: can you engage in war in self defence? Can you
punish the aggressor? Can you recover stolen resources?
1.
Internal wrongs: wrongs are being committed within a political regime
a.
Questions focus on whether outside political regimes are ever morally
permitted or required to intervene to prevent such wrongs.
Section 1: Standard Account of Just War
4 Preliminary points:
1.
Caney does not seek to provide a comprehensive account of when and
how war should be waged
a.
He does not examine civil war or waging war to protect human rights in
another regime
1.
This chapter focuses on how political regimes can respond to wrongs
perpetrated by external agents
a.
Political regimes and 'external agents' are each wider than 'states'
1.
Other values besides justice should influence how regimes respond to
