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The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Events
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 11:00Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften, Am Wingertsberg 4, 61348 Bad Homburg
Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften of Goethe University
Fellow colloquium
Yitzhak Benbaji (Tel Aviv University)
»Zionism Meets Political Philosophy, Part I: Just War Theory and the First Israeli-Arab War«
Abstract
The first war between Arabs and Jews in 1948 was, according to the historiography on which we (viz., Danny Statman and I) rely, »a four sided war«, which contemporary just war theory almost never address. Theorists usually analyze armed conflicts between two group agents, assuming that one is an aggressor and the other a defender, or that both are aggressors. In this part of our project we discuss conflicts between two ethnonational groups, both of which include defenders (minimalists) and aggressors (maximalists). The normative questions that we address are two. (1.) Are minimalists entitled to join their maximalist co-nationals in fighting the maximalists on the other side, and if so, in which circumstances? (2.) If so, what should minimalists have aimed to achieve by resorting to force and coercion?
The speaker
Yitzhak Benbaji is a professor of philosophy at Tel-Aviv University Law Faculty. In the summer semester he is staying at the Institute in Bad Homburg, on the invitation of the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften and the Frankfurt-Tel Aviv Center for the Study of Religious and Interreligious Studies. He is working together with Daniel Statman on their joint book project »Political Philosophy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict«.
Participation and registration
Closed event. For participation on site, please register in advance (contact: Beate Sutterlüty; email: b.sutterluety@forschungskolleg-humanwissenschaften.de).
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