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This remarkably rich collection of articles focuses on moral questions about war. The essays, originally published in Philosophy & Public Affairs, cover a wide range of topics from several points of view by writers from the fields of political science, philosophy, and law. The discussion of war and moral responsibility falls into three general categories: problems of political and military choice, problems about the relation of an individual to the actions of his government, and more abstract ethical questions as well. The first category includes questions about the ethical and legal aspects of war crimes and the laws of war; about the source of moral restrictions on military methods or goals; and about differences in suitability of conduct which may depend on differences in the nature of the opponent. The second category includes questions about the conditions for responsibility of individual soldiers and civilian officials for war crimes, and about the proper attitude of a government toward potential conscripts who reject its military policies. The third category includes disputes between absolutist, deontological, and utilitarian ethical theories, and deals with questions about the existence of insoluble moral dilemmas.

War --- War (International law) --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Act of state doctrine. --- Adolf Eichmann. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Aggression. --- Ambiguity (law). --- Analogy. --- Anguish. --- Anti-personnel weapon. --- Anti-social behaviour order. --- Appeasement. --- Attempt. --- Belligerent. --- Collective punishment. --- Collective responsibility. --- Combat. --- Combatant. --- Command responsibility. --- Conscientious objector. --- Conscription. --- Consideration. --- Crime against peace. --- Crime. --- Crimes of War. --- Criminal code. --- Criticism. --- Cruelty. --- Decision Analyst (company). --- Decision-making. --- Declaration of war. --- Demagogue. --- Deontological ethics. --- Determination. --- Deterrence theory. --- Dirty hands. --- Distributive justice. --- Essence of Decision. --- Ethical dilemma. --- Ethics. --- Foreign Policy. --- Foreign policy. --- Hostility. --- Intention (criminal law). --- International law. --- Just war theory. --- Law of the United States. --- Law of war. --- Legal burden of proof. --- Massacre. --- Military dictatorship. --- Military justice. --- Military necessity. --- Military operation. --- Military policy. --- Moral absolutism. --- Moral agency. --- Moral imperative. --- Moral obligation. --- Moral reasoning. --- Moral responsibility. --- Morale. --- Morality. --- Nazi crime. --- Nazism. --- Nuremberg and Vietnam. --- Obligation. --- Pacifism. --- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. --- Philosophy. --- Politics as a Vocation. --- Precedent. --- Presumption. --- Prisoner of war. --- Probability. --- Probable cause. --- Public international law. --- Punishment. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Reprisal. --- Requirement. --- Respondeat superior. --- Ruler. --- Selective Service System. --- Special case. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Summary execution. --- Superior orders. --- The Just Assassins. --- Thought. --- Tort. --- Tribunal. --- Utilitarianism. --- Vicarious liability. --- War crime. --- War effort. --- War of aggression. --- War. --- Warfare. --- World War II. --- Wrongdoing.