PHIL 2429 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Appeasement, J. Walter Thompson, Individualism

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2429
• Professor: Davidovic Jovana

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Collectivist argue that war is a relationship not between people but between collectives. Aggression: wen one state wrongfully attacks another. Walzer says individuals give states a tacit rather than explicit consent: by living i(cid:374) a state a(cid:374)d ha(cid:448)i(cid:374)g a (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) life i(cid:374) it (cid:272)itize(cid:374)s ag(cid:396)ee to the state"s forceful protection of them. If the state does(cid:374)"t p(cid:396)ote(cid:272)t it o(cid:396) the(cid:396)e"s no life to protect, walzer says it lacks the right to wage defensive wars. Most jwt think that there is nothing like war and the rules governing it are unique: war involves killing and maiming people deliberately which are immoral in everyday life. Walzer says that if you try to apply rules of life to war, the individualist achieves what morality would be like if war was a peacetime activity which its not. Wa(cid:396) itself is(cid:374)"t a (cid:396)elatio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)s (cid:271)ut (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) politi(cid:272)al entities and their human instruments.