War by Agreement: A Contractarian Ethics of War

by Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman

War by Agreement presents a new theory on the ethics of war. It shows that wars can be morally justified at both the ad bellum level (the political decision to go to war) and the in bello level (its actual conduct by the military)by accepting a contractarian account of the rules governing war. According to this account, the rules of war are anchored in a mutually beneficial and fair agreement between the relevant players - the purpose of which is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199577196
• ISBN13: 9780199577194
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"