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Just War and the Problem of Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Robin May Schott
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In this essay, Robin May Schott criticizes leading proponents of just war theory and introduces the notion of justifiable but illegitimate violence. Instead of legitimating some wars as just, it is better to acknowledge that both the situation of war and moral judgments about war are ambiguous. Schott raises the questions: What are alternative narratives of war? And what are alternative narratives to war? Such narratives are necessary for addressing the concepts of evil and of witnessing in the ethical discourse after Auschwitz.

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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 122 - 140
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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