Torture, terrorism, and the use of violence /

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This volume brings together new and innovative work on questions of violence--and in particular on the moral and political questions surrounding torture and terrorism. Each essay contributes to our understanding of the limits and scope of violence, and how we might appropriately respond to it, in th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wisnewski, Jeremy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Colección:Review journal of political philosophy ; v. 6, pt. 2
Temas:
Terrorism > Moral and ethical aspects.
Violence > Moral and ethical aspects.
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects.
Terrorism > Philosophy.
Violence > Political aspects.
Nihilism (Philosophy)
Terrorisme > Philosophie.
Violence > Aspect politique.
Nihilisme.
Terrorisme > Aspect moral.
Violence > Aspect moral.
nihilism.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Social & political philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Violence > Political aspects
Terrorism > Philosophy
Terrorism > Moral and ethical aspects
Torture > Moral and ethical aspects
Violence > Moral and ethical aspects
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Table of contents; acknowledgments; a typology of terrorism; why the end of liberation cannot justify terrorism as means; torture and moral knowledge; the senses of terrorism; must terrorism be violent?; which rules; the ethics of terror and torture; waterboarding, torture, and violence; acts of self-harming protest and the definition of terrorism.

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