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Graduate Student, Philosophy
New York City College of Technology, Social Science
Thesis Title: The Possibility of Just Combatants
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Jay Bernstein
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About
My aim is to re-assess the main questions of just war theory (e.g., What is a just cause? When is proportionality reached? Who should be the focus of determinations of discrimination and liability?) as found in the work of Walzer, McMahan, and others in order to bring out the presuppositions of their arguments with reference to the nature of combat and combatants. I will then show—through Clausewitz’s proto-phenomenology of war, as well as the similar efforts of J. Glenn Gray and others—that their views on combat and combatants don’t correspond to the realities of combat and combatants and that this lack of correspondence can be shown to play a part in the suffering that combatants must face in war.
The central claim of my project is that in the various ways it has tried to limit the harm to one population of victims of aggression (noncombatants) just war theory has unknowingly increased the harm to another population (combatants). This is because perpetrators of aggression are also victims, though in ways that have not yet been sufficiently understood or even investigated.
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