Abstract:
Commonly, employing violent force and retaliation are conceived as irrational and uncivilized
waysof human existence. Thus, they are considered as morally wrong acts. But, under certain
conditions, employing violent force and retaliation can be morally justifiable.In this Article, I triedto
illustrate the moral justifiability of employing violence for the purpose of self-defense, freedom,
equality, balance of justice, and maximizing the benefits of the majority in number. By combining both
moral and political theories, I attempted to analyze the moral acceptability of violent force and
retaliationat the individual and community level; and in the arena of national and international
politics.Even through, many research works have been done in this area, no one tried to provide a
comprehensive analysis of the moral justifiability of violence and retaliation. To fill this gap, I used
liberal, Marxian,Retributive andutilitarian theories in combination. Thus,this Article is well organized
and elaborated to provide an important background awareness and direction to other researchers on
the need of using combined theories (moral and political) to fully conceptualize the moral goodness
and natural ground of utilizing violent force and retaliation incertain political circumstances.
