Speaker: Arthur Ripstein, Philosophy and Law, Uof T Talk: “Law and the Morality of War”
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October 19, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Talks for Fall 2022: Wednesdays at 10 am (in person at Faculty Club and on ZOOM)
Registration will open a few weeks before the event.
Speaker: Arthur Ripstein, Philosophy and Law, Uof T
Talk: “Law and the Morality of War”
Introducer: Brian Corman
Abstract: Pretty much everything is wrong with war. In this talk, I take up a suggestion made by eighteenth-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant that there is something distinctively wrong with war, that it is the condition in which force decides. Developing this Kantian idea, I argue that a special morality governs the use of force because of the distinctive way in which war is morally problematic.
Bio: Arthur Ripstein is University Professor in the Faculty of Law and FAS Department of Philosophy. He also holds the Howard Beck Q.C. Chair in Law. He was appointed to the Department of Philosophy in 1987, promoted to Full Professor in 1996, appointed to the Faculty of Law in 1999, and appointed to the rank of University Professor in 2016. He was awarded the Killam Prize for the Humanities in 2021. He served as Chair of the Department of Philosophy 2011-14 and as Acting Chair 2018-19. He served as a Governor of the University of Toronto and on its Business Board from 2003-2011, and on its Executive Committee from 2004-2011. His research and teaching interests include torts, legal theory, political philosophy and Kant. In addition to numerous articles in legal theory and political philosophy, he is the author of Kant and the Law of War (Oxford 2021), Rules for Wrongdoers (Oxford 2021), Private Wrongs (Harvard 2016), Force and Freedom: Kant’s Legal and Political Philosophy (Harvard 2009) and Equality, Responsibility and the Law (Cambridge 1999).
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