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- Title
CHAPTER 6: Decolonizing Paradigms of Normative Evaluation: The Coloniality of Just War Theory.
- Authors
Walker, James R.
- Abstract
This then is the great humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well. The oppressors, who oppress, exploit, and rape by virtue of their power, cannot find in this power the strength to liberate either the oppressed or themselves. Only power that springs from the weakness of the oppressed will be sufficiently strong to free both. Any attempt to "soften" the power of the oppressor in deference to the weaknesses of the oppressed almost always manifests itself in the form of false generosity; indeed, the attempt never goes beyond this. In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity," the oppressors must perpetuate injustices as well. Any unjust social order is the permanent fount of this "generosity," which is nourished by death, despair, and poverty.
- Subjects
JUST war doctrine; WAR &; ethics; WAR (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY; CONSCIENTIOUS objection
- Publication
Value Inquiry Book Series, 2019, Vol 342, p111
- ISSN
0929-8436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004417588_008