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Justifying the Obligation to Die :  War, Ethics, and Political Obligation with Illustrations from Zionism - Ilan Zvi Baron

Justifying the Obligation to Die

War, Ethics, and Political Obligation with Illustrations from Zionism

By: Ilan Zvi Baron

Hardcover | 1 April 2009

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Justifying the Obligation to Die provides a critical survey covering classical, medieval, and modern political thinking on how the state or sovereign may justifiably oblige members of the community to risk their lives on its behalf by being sent into war, and it uses Zionism to illustrate how this obligation has been argued in practice. The author then turns to the political thought of Hannah Arendt in order to argue how the obligation could become justifiable.
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This book breathes new life into an old but, today, largely forgotten question-is there an obligation to die or risk one's life for the state in war? Ranging widely over western sources, and innovatively reading Zionism as political philosophy, Ilan Zvi Baron has fashioned a humane and sophisticated account of the kind of politics and polity worth dying for. -- Geoffrey Brahm Levey, University of New South Wales
Baron's careful exploration of various justifications for the obligation to die for the state-an issue which, he rightly notes, is oddly overlooked in the recent literature-is timely, interesting, and thought-provoking. -- Cecile Fabre, University of Edinburgh

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