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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779602903321

Autore

Steinhoff Uwe

Titolo

On the ethics of torture [[electronic resource] /] / Uwe Steinhoff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State Universtiy of New York Press, c2013

ISBN

1-4384-4623-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Disciplina

172/.2

Soggetti

Torture - Moral and ethical aspects

Punishment - Moral and ethical aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""On the Ethics of Torture""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1: What Is Torture?""; ""Chapter 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""

""Chapter 3: Defusing the Ticking-Social-Bomb Argument: Against Consequentialist Attempts to Undermine the Right to Self-defensive Torture""""Chapter 4: Against the Institutionalization of Torture""; ""Chapter 5: Legalizing Torture?""; ""Chapter 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�""; ""Chapter 7: Is Justifying Torture Bad Even If Torture Is Sometimes Justified?""; ""Conclusions""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""