Killing in War
Oxford University Press, $64.95 hb, 255 pp
Philosophy
The justified and the dead
Changing the tenets of a just war
by Tony Coady •
One of the most productive and interesting areas of research in applied philosophy is concerned with moral issues around warfare. Although there had been important contributions previously, Michael Walzer’s Just and Unjust Wars (1977) was immensely influential in philosophy and well beyond its confines, reinstating ‘just war’ thinking as a mainstream intellectual position. It became, for instance, a standard text in Western military academies.
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