#1168 Jeff McMahan: The Ethics of Political Violence: Can It Be Justified?
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm here with a return guest, Dr. Jeff McMahon. And in our previous conversations, we've tackled topics like the ethics of killing, the ethics of killing. In war, we also talked about veganism and academic freedom.
And today I thought it would be relevant due to recent events and developments in the US, but also elsewhere that we tackle the ethics of political violence, which will also include political assassination. So, Jeff, welcome back to the show. It's always a pleasure to talk with you. Thanks, Ricardo. Always a pleasure for me too.
Okay, so maybe before we get into the ethics itself, let's start by perhaps trying to arrive at a definition of political violence here. So as a philosopher, and of course I could ask the same question to political scientists and other people, but as a philosopher, what is your understanding of political violence? How do you approach it? Well, it's a term that is being used a lot now, and what one has to do is try to understand how people are applying it. As I say, it's a sort of new term.
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