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The Just War Tradition: Translating the Ethics of Human Dignity into Political Practices

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Debra B. Bergoffen
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Abstract

This essay argues that the ambiguities of the just war tradition, sifted through a feminist critique, provides the best framework currently available for translating the ethical entitlement to human dignity into concrete feminist political practices. It offers a gendered critique of war that pursues the just war distinction between legitimate and illegitimate targets of wartime violence and provides a gendered analysis of the peace which the just war tradition obliges us to preserve and pursue.

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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 72 - 94
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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