Liability and collective identity: A response to Walzer

Philosophia 34 (1):13-17 (2006)
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There is much to admire in Michael Walzer’s discussion of terrorism and just war. I particularly applaud his insistence that liability to attack is a matter of action rather than membership or collective identity. “It is,” he writes, “the extension of violence or the threat..

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Terrorism and just war.Michael Walzer - 2006 - Philosophia 34 (1):3-12.

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