On the ethics of torture /
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| Author / Creator: | Steinhoff, Uwe. |
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| Imprint: | Albany [N.Y.] : State Universtiy of New York Press, c2013. |
| Description: | xi, 191 p. ; 24 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9047134 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. What Is Torture?
- 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
- 3. Defusing the Ticking-Social-Bomb Argument: Against Consequentialist Attempts to Undermine the Right to Self-defensive Torture
- 4. Against the Institutionalization of Torture
- 5. Legalizing Torture?
- 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"
- 7. Is Justifying Torture Bad Even If Torture Is Sometimes Justified?
- Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
