WAR AND POST-TRUTH: MORAL EQUALITY OF COMBATANTS AND INCULPABLE IGNORANCE IN JUST WAR THEORY
WAR AND POST-TRUTH: MORAL EQUALITY OF COMBATANTS AND INCULPABLE IGNORANCE IN JUST WAR THEORY

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to explain the effect of the post-truth on revisionism in Just War Theory. Revisionism in JWT is based on the claim that Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello cannot be separated and that only combatants who fight on the just side are morally justified in killing. Presupposition of this argument is that combatants can and ought to know the moral status of their side. This paper will demonstrate that it is impossible to demand combatants to know whether their side is just by investigating the implications of post-truth in modern conflicts. By demonstrating the practical impossibility of combatants to know whether their side is just, author will show that the assumption of inculpable ignorance in war must remain the essence of JWT. Posttruth phenomenon only fortifies the necessity of separating Jus ad Bellum from Jus in Bello and upholding the principle of moral equality of combatants in contemporary wars.

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