Instrumentation trainee guide. level 2

War and self-defense by Rodin, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The argument -- The status of moral claims -- War and consequentialism -- Part I: Self-defense -- Rights -- Hohfeld's building blocks -- Logical structure of rights -- Having a right and being in the right -- Justification and excuse -- Model of defensive rights -- A three-legged stool -- Defense as a derivative right -- Limits on the right: necessity, imminence, proportionality -- Bounds of proportionality -- Consequences and forced choice -- The lesser evil -- Forced choice -- The resilience of responsibility -- Grounding self-defense in rights -- Forfeiture and rights of limited scope -- The role of fault -- Innocent threats and innocent aggressors -- Objective wrongdoing -- Moral subjects -- Variety of excuses -- Part II: National-defense -- International law -- National-defense in international law -- Limits of the right -- Need for a normative foundation -- War and defense of persons -- Two levels of war -- Reductive strategy -- Imminent and conditional threats -- War and the protection of persons -- War and the common life -- Political association -- The character of common lives -- Communal integrity and self-determination -- Myth of descrete communities -- War, responsibility, and law enforcement -- Paradox in the just war theory -- Responsibility of soldiers -- War and law enforcement -- Argument for a universal state -- Conclusion: Morality and realism.…”