- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Case for Regime Change -
2 Liberal Legacies, Europe’s Totalitarian Era, and the Iraq War -
3 “Regime Change” -
4 In the Murk of It -
5 National Interest and International Law -
6 Just War against an “Outlaw” Region -
7 Moral Arguments -
8 A Friendly Drink in a Time of War -
9 Wielding the Moral Club -
10 Peace, Human Rights, and the Moral Choices of the Churches -
11 Ethical Correctness and the Decline of the Left -
12 Pages from a Daily Journal of Argument -
13 Liberal Realism or Liberal Idealism -
14 Iraq and the European Left -
15 Guilt’s End -
16 The Iraq War and the French Left -
17 Tempting Illusions, Scary Realities, or the Emperor’s New Clothes II -
18 Antitotalitarianism as a Vocation -
19 Sometimes, a War Saves People -
20 Gulf War Syndrome Mark II -
21 “They Don’t Know One Little Thing” -
22 “Why Did It Take You So Long to Get Here?” -
23 Full Statement to the House of Commons, 18 March 2003 -
24 The Threat of Global Terrorism - Contributors
- Index
Moral Arguments
Moral Arguments
Sovereignty, Feasibility, Agency, and Consequences
- Chapter:
- (p.125) 7 Moral Arguments
- Source:
- A Matter of Principle
- Author(s):
Daniel Kofman
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter explores the two main areas of normative controversy giving rise to confusion in the antiwar movement: rights and duties concerning sovereignty, and agent-restrictive or consequentialist considerations. It starts by presenting the argument from sovereignty. The Twin Earth comparison suggests how equally contingent is the current conglomeration of politically correct views. Principled opponents of the war in Iraq do not usually deny that bringing about a stable democracy in Iraq is good in itself. It is argued that diffident feasibility skepticism has been the only justified stance of opposition to the war in Iraq. The Coalition is not even responsible for the deaths of innocent bystanders, the collateral damage of its bombing, since these deaths were “unintended”.
Keywords: antiwar movement, rights, sovereignty, agent-restrictive, consequentialist, Twin Earth comparison, Iraq war, Coalition
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
1 The Case for Regime Change -
2 Liberal Legacies, Europe’s Totalitarian Era, and the Iraq War -
3 “Regime Change” -
4 In the Murk of It -
5 National Interest and International Law -
6 Just War against an “Outlaw” Region -
7 Moral Arguments -
8 A Friendly Drink in a Time of War -
9 Wielding the Moral Club -
10 Peace, Human Rights, and the Moral Choices of the Churches -
11 Ethical Correctness and the Decline of the Left -
12 Pages from a Daily Journal of Argument -
13 Liberal Realism or Liberal Idealism -
14 Iraq and the European Left -
15 Guilt’s End -
16 The Iraq War and the French Left -
17 Tempting Illusions, Scary Realities, or the Emperor’s New Clothes II -
18 Antitotalitarianism as a Vocation -
19 Sometimes, a War Saves People -
20 Gulf War Syndrome Mark II -
21 “They Don’t Know One Little Thing” -
22 “Why Did It Take You So Long to Get Here?” -
23 Full Statement to the House of Commons, 18 March 2003 -
24 The Threat of Global Terrorism - Contributors
- Index
