the ethics of military intervention

Ethics
Compare and contrast the views of Kant* and Mill* on the ethics of military intervention. You may, if you wish, also compare these views with elements of traditional ?just war theory? ? e.g. those mentioned by Thomas Aquinas. Either defend one of these approaches (partly by critiquing the other), or critique both and then say whether a more plausible view could be developed by a contemporary utilitarian or consequentialist (using Millian premises to reach a conclusion different from Mill?s) or a contemporary Kantian (using Kantian premises to reach a different conclusion).

Tips: For Kant, check the index, under ?war?, in both his Metaphysics of Morals (/PP) and his Lectures on Ethics. More importantly, though, see his essay ?Perpetual Peace?, and/or the book entitled Principles of Lawful Politics, which includes Kant?s famous essay (translated here as) ?Toward Eternal Peace?. Note that the large print in the book is Kant’s own text; any small print is the editor?s (which is interspersed throughout). This essay is familiarly known as ?Perpetual Peace?; and it can also be found, under the title Toward Perpetual Peace, in PP. This latter text is preferable in some ways. For Mill?s views, see ?A Few Words on Non-Intervention? ? especially pp. 251-63 ? in his Dissertations and Discussions (on reserve for this course).

Three articles offer useful background: ?War? (by Brian Orend), ?Pacifism? (by Andrew Fiala) and ?Cosmopolitanism? (by P. Kleingeld & E. Brown). Keep in mind: (a) Orend?s book on reserve, The Morality of War, has more to say about humanitarian intervention (including stuff about Kant); (b) section 3 of Fiala?s article, ?Consequentialist Pacifism? and section 4, ?Deontological Pacifism?, come close to capturing aspects of Mill?s view and Kant?s view, respectively (though only Kant is mentioned explicitly; and ultimately neither Kant nor Mill is a pacifist); (c) the ?Cosmopolitanism? article also overstates Kant?s pacifist tendencies; a useful corrective is section 8 of Rauscher?s entry, ?Kant?s Social and Political Philosophy?, a section called ?International Relations and History?.