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Hypatia

Hypatia

Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2008

E-ISSN: 1527-2001 Print ISSN: 0887-5367

DOI: 10.1353/hyp.0.0017

Debra B. Bergoffen
The Just War Tradition: Translating the Ethics of Human Dignity into Political Practices
Hypatia - Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2008, pp. 72-94

Indiana University Press

Abstract:

This essay argues that the ambiguities of the just war tradition, sifted through a feminist critique, provides the best framework currently available for translating the ethical entitlement to human dignity into concrete feminist political practices. It offers a gendered critique of war that pursues the just war distinction between legitimate and illegitimate targets of wartime violence and provides a gendered analysis of the peace which the just war tradition obliges us to preserve and pursue.


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