Recent Work on the Ethics of Self-Defense

Philosophy Compass 6 (4):220-233 (2011)
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Over the past 20 years, there has been a huge amount of work on which things you can kill in self‐defense and why. This paper surveys that work.

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10.1111/j.1747-9991.2010.00382.x

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