Torture, terrorism, and the use of violence /

Torture, terrorism, and the use of violence /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (180 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Review journal of political philosophy ; v. 6, pt. 2
Subject:	Terrorism -- Moral and ethical aspects. Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. Terrorism -- Moral and ethical aspects. Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. Violence -- Moral and ethical aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11191042
Related Items:	Supplement to: Review journal of political philosophy Review journal of political philosophy, v. 6, no. 1.

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Other authors / contributors:	Wisnewski, Jeremy.
ISBN:	1443802913 9781443802918 1847188311 9781443800235 9781443802932 1282029916 9781282029910 9786612029912 6612029919
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. English. Review journal of political philosophy, v. 6, no. 1. Print version record.
Summary:	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 the context of concrete concerns. Questions include: is torture ever justified? How are we to understand terrorism? Should we believe the claim that torture is sometimes necessary? Is conscientious o ...
Other form:	Print version: Wisnewski, J. Jeremy. Torture, Terrorism, and the Use of Violence : (also available as Review Journal of Political Philosophy Volume 6, Issue Number 1). Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2008 9781847188311

Table of Contents:

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.