Forced Choices and Self-Defence |
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Authors: | PHILLIP MONTAGUE |
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Affiliation: | Phillip Montague, Department of Philosophy, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, 98225–9054, USA. |
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Abstract: | ABSTRACT This paper is a reply to three objections raised by Seumas Miller against a 'forced-choice'account of the morality of self-defence. It is argued that Miller's first objection rests on a misconception of how the forced-choice account is supposed to work; that his second objection is simply mistaken; and that his third objection overlooks how the forced-choice account explicitly accommodates the moral difference between self-defence and 'other-defence.'Finally, it is suggested that Miller's entire approach is defective in its failure to examine the principle of justice which underlies the forced-choice account, and whether it applies to standard self-defence situations. |
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