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- Title
Just War Theory as Ideological and Combatant Role Confusion.
- Authors
Kelly, Michaeleen
- Abstract
This essay attempts to demonstrate how just war theory functions in our lifeworld as a fundamental assumption justifying military resolutions to political problems. It explores the issue of why this state of affairs and other specified conditions imply its ideological status. Four different interpretations of ideology will be discussed, with emphasis on Habermas' theory of unconscious lifeworld assumptions and the postmodern conception of ideology as a traumatic kernel of truth which can only be precipitated by a significant Event. The arguments regarding the ideological status of just war theory are further explored as a basis for analyzing the difficulties in assessing the morality of role acceptance and role fulfillment on the part of the combatant in a culture in which the belief that war can be justified in principle functions ideologically.
- Subjects
JUST war doctrine; WAR &; ethics; WAR (Philosophy); CAUSES of war; WAR; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
International Journal of Peace Studies, 2016, Vol 21, Issue 2, p15
- ISSN
1085-7494
- Publication type
Article