Confronting evils : terrorism, torture, genocide /

"In this new contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Card, Claudia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Good and evil.
Terrorism.
Torture.
Genocide.
Philosophy.
Ethics
Homicide
Philosophy
Terrorism
Torture
Terrorisme.
Philosophie.
terrorism.
philosophy.
torturing.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Genocide
Good and evil
Ethik
Das Böse
Folter
Terrorismus
Völkermord
Das Böse > Philosophie.
Philosophie > Das Böse.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The concept of evil. Inexcusable wrongs
  • Between good and evil
  • Complicity in structural evils
  • To whom (or to what?) can evils be done?
  • Terrorism, torture, genocide. Counterterrorism
  • Low-profile terrorism
  • Conscientious torture?
  • Ordinary torture
  • Genocide is social death
  • Genocide by forced impregnation.

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