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On the ethics of torture /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany [N.Y.] :
State University of New York Press,
Ã2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- On the Ethics of Torture; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: What Is Torture?; Chapter 2: The Moral Justification of Torture; 2.1 The Argument from Self-defense; 2.1.1 What Is Self-defense?; 2.1.2 Proportionality, or: Many Forms of Torture Are Not as Bad as Killing; 2.2 The Argument from the Culpability for Creating a Forced-Choice Situation; 2.3 The Argument from Necessity; 2.4 Reminder: The Justification of Torture Is Compatible with Rights Absolutism; 2.5 The Utilitarian Argument.
- Chapter 3: Defusing the Ticking-Social-Bomb Argument: Against Consequentialist Attempts to Undermine the Right to Self-defensive TortureChapter 4: Against the Institutionalization of Torture; Chapter 5: Legalizing Torture?; Chapter 6: Objections; 6.1 Attempts to Quickly Dismiss the Argument from Self-defense and Other Rights-based Arguments; 6.2 The Defenselessness Argument; 6.3 But Is It Really Self-defense? Whitley Kaufman and Daniel Hill; 6.4 David Sussman's Complicity Argument; 6.5 Kant's Categorical Imperative: The Three Kantian Formulas.
- 6.6 "Breaking the Will" (and "Dignity," "Subject Status," and "Self-legislative Rulership")6.7 Torture and the Doctrine of Double Effect; 6.8 Is the Ticking-Bomb Example Unrealistic?; 6.9 "Torture Knows No Limits"; Chapter 7: Is Justifying Torture Bad Even If Torture Is Sometimes Justified?; Conclusions; Notes; References; Index.