Předmět Ethics of Armed Conflicts (JPM651)

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Cíl

The ethics of armed conflicts is a subject that has experienced a revival in the last nearly four decades. Based on a tradition dating back to St. Augustine and Aristotle, the ethics of war experienced a renewed interest during the 1970s due to Michael Walzer’s seminal book, Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, and to the Vietnam War which motivated Walzer, and others, to question if and under what conditions war and the use of lethal violence can be morally permissible. The ethics of armed conflicts is also a subject of utmost importance today. Statements addressing the justice of both the resort to force and conduct in its execution are prevalent in the media and in on-going political debates. The legitimacy of the Iraq War, the humanitarian intervention in Libya, targeted killing of Taliban and al-Qaida leaders around the world, or e.g. the question of soldiers’ obligations in peacekeeping missions became issues that divide international public opinion and put strains on international politics.The aim of this course is not to give prefabricated answers to such moral questions. Instead, the goal is to explore the moral arguments, assumptions and principles that underlie the range of answers and thus make students engage critically with these questions and arguments in relation to specific cases.

Garant

Mgr. Tomáš Kučera, Ph.D.