Class Notes for PHL378H1 at University of Toronto St. George (UTSG)

Traditional view (waltzer: moral equality of soldiers, soldiers just and unjust side are both morally permitted to kill each other, all legitimate targ

Review plus exam discussion on thursday; essays ok on friday, leave in my dropbox. Topic is nuclear deterrence, which will connect with walzer on supre

Ius ad bellum (resort to war) ius: right, ad: concerning, bellum: war. Ius in bello (means of fighting war) just cause does not necessarily equal a jus

 do not write on same topic you did on essay. Humanitarian intervention law model vs. war model is humanitarian intervention a just cause for war? int

 better rhetoric would have been to argue war in 2003 as the continuation of the gulf war and. Us pursuing the cjc of disarmament of iraq (wmd)  but

 combatants are moral targets and non-combatants are not this is b/c while everyone started off with rights to not be killed some ppl lost their right

 clear examples of pure humanitarian intervention is rare, usually its a mixed motives.  humanitarian intervention lacks territorial control as oppos

 deontology: opposite of consequentiallism, you should do an act not because it"s the right act whether or not it produce good consequences is irrelev

Legalist paradigm right of states derives from the right of individual members.  ppl have the right to collective political self determination.  as l

Just cause if we are invaded by usa the aggression violates the right to collective government.  offensive wars can be justified/permissible but they