POLS-Y 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Spanish Civil War, George Orwell, Jus Ad Bellum
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Moral judgements are possible in general, during war it"s not necessarily important. Realism the strongest is going to win, in war one can do whatever it takes to win. If you set up moral rules of war: saying that war is a normal activity. We should follow rules of war: realism, moral truths that tell us that certain activities are wrong. 12: unjust to begin a war through aggression. Moral talk to coercive, one thing leads to another. Morality must be substantiated with the real world: sherman"s march: civil war, fighting against south, burns through atlanta, (pg. Sherman: its cruel but it"s not his cruelty: rules of war have two parts, rules of war: tell whether or not the rules of war are just, unjust if because of aggression, attack a country unprovoked. Qualified absolutism: big questions for rules of war.
