How Long to Read Justifying the Obligation to Die

How Long Does it Take to Read Justifying the Obligation to Die?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 3 minutes to read Justifying the Obligation to Die by Ilan Zvi Baron

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Description

One of the state's key features is its ability to oblige its citizens to risk their lives on its behalf by being sent into war. However, what is it about the state (or its equivalent) that makes this obligation justifiable? Justifying the Obligation to Die is the first monograph to explore systematically how this obligation has been justified. Using key texts from political philosophy and just war theory, it provides a critical survey of how this obligation has been justified and, using illustrations from Zionist thought and practice, demonstrates how the various arguments for the obligation have functioned. The obligation to risk one's life for the state is often presumed by theorists and practitioners who take the state for granted, but for the Zionists, a people without a state but in search of one and who have little history of state-based political thought, it became necessary to explain this obligation. As such, this book examines Zionism as a Jewish political theory, reading it alongside the tradition of Western political thought, and critiques how Zionist thought and practice sought to justify this obligation to risk one's life in war_what Michael Walzer termed 'the obligation to die.' Finally, turning to the political thought of Hannah Arendt, the author suggests how the obligation could become justifiable, although never entirely justified. For the obligation to become at all justifiable, the type of politics that the state enables must respect human diversity and individuality and restrict violence so that violence is not a continuation of politics.

How long is Justifying the Obligation to Die?

Justifying the Obligation to Die by Ilan Zvi Baron is 296 pages long, and a total of 75,776 words.

This makes it 100% the length of the average book. It also has 93% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Justifying the Obligation to Die Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 54 minutes to read Justifying the Obligation to Die aloud.

What Reading Level is Justifying the Obligation to Die?

Justifying the Obligation to Die is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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