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Torture and dignity : an essay on moral injury /
In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations-torture-J.M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. M...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- History, phenomenology, and moral analysis
- Abolishing torture and the uprising of the rule of law
- Introduction
- Abolishing torture: the dignity of tormentable bodies
- Torture and the rule of law: Beccaria
- The Beccaria thesis
- Forgetting Beccaria
- On being tortured
- Introduction
- Pain: certainty and separateness
- Amiry's torture
- Pain's aversiveness
- Pain: feeling or reason?
- Sovereignty: pain and the other
- Without borders: loss of trust in the world
- The harm of rape, the harm of torture
- Introduction: rape and/as torture
- Moral injury as appearance
- Moral injury as actual: bodily persons
- On being raped
- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: rape
- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: torture
- Constructing moral dignity
- To be is to live, to be is to be recognized
- Introduction
- To be is to be recognized
- Risk and the necessity of life for self-consciousness
- Being and having a body
- From life to recognition
- Trust as mutual recognition
- Introduction
- The necessity, pervasiveness, and invisibility of trust
- Trust's priority over reason
- Trust in a developmental setting
- On first love: trust as the recognition of intrinsic worth
- "My body ... my physical and metaphysical dignity"
- Why dignity?
- From Nuremberg to Treblinka: the fate of the unlovable
- Without rights, without dignity: from humiliation to devastation
- Dignity and the human form
- The body without dignity
- My body: voluntary and involuntary
- Bodily revolt: respect, self-respect, and dignity
- Concluding remarks : on moral alienation
- The abolition of torture and utilitarian fantasies
- Moral alienation and the persistence of rape.