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Existential Threat as a Casus Belli
| العنوان: | Existential Threat as a Casus Belli |
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| المؤلفون: | Sergey Kucherenko |
| المصدر: | Conatus - Journal of Philosophy, Vol 8, Iss 2 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | The NKUA Applied Philosophy Research Laboratory, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Philosophy (General) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | just cause, just war, existential threat, state, ontology, Philosophy (General), B1-5802 |
| الوصف: | Existential threat is often mentioned in political rhetoric. While it is mostly used to denote threats to humanity as a whole, like climate change or AI, it is also used on a smaller scale. Existential threat to a state or a similar entity is often evoked too. Such a threat is considered grave enough to justify war and – possibly – the use of nuclear weapons. In the present article, the author aims to deconstruct the notion of “existential threat” in relation to the state and show that it should not be used as a reason to go to war. The main argument is that the state has a specific mode of existence which makes it impossible to speak of state death unambiguously. Therefore, there can be no apparent threats to its existence. The author proposes a normative interpretation of the state. The state is understood as a project of a certain group, or even an individual, therefore the discussion of “existential threat” to a state should be dropped in favor of a more grounded evaluation of potential gains and losses by different social groups and political parties. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2653-9373 2459-3842 |
| Relation: | https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/Conatus/article/view/35080; https://doaj.org/toc/2653-9373; https://doaj.org/toc/2459-3842 |
| DOI: | 10.12681/cjp.35080 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/a6aea21bab094e62b423ea5ea47f471d |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.6aea21bab094e62b423ea5ea47f471d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| تدمد: | 26539373 24593842 |
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| DOI: | 10.12681/cjp.35080 |