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Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk
Deane-Peter Baker
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Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JFME; JPVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246.
Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called `foreign fighters'. Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political liberalism ... Read more
Citizen Killings: Liberalism, State Policy and Moral Risk offers a ground breaking systematic approach to formulating ethical public policy on all forms of 'citizen killings', which include killing in self-defence, abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, euthanasia and killings carried out by private military contractors and so-called `foreign fighters'. Where most approaches to these issues begin with the assumptions of some or other general approach to ethics, Deane-Peter Baker argues that life-or-death policy decisions of this kind should be driven first and foremost by a recognition of the key limitations that a commitment to political liberalism ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472575425
SKU
V9781472575425
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About Deane-Peter Baker
Deane-Peter Baker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, Australia. In addition to his role at UNSW Canberra Dr Baker holds the position of Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg and is also a researcher in the Australian Centre for the Study of Armed Conflict ... Read more
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