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Ethics for Enemies Terror, Torture, and War

9780199608782

Ethics for Enemies Terror, Torture, and War

  • ISBN 13:

    9780199608782

  • ISBN 10:

    0199608784

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 09/05/2011
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

Ethics for Enemiescomprises three original philosophical essays on torture, terrorism, and war. F. M. Kamm deploys ethical theory in her challenging new treatments of these most controversial practical issues. First she considers the nature of torture and the various occasions on which it could occur, in order to determine why it might be wrong to torture a wrongdoer held captive, even if this were necessary to save his victims. In the second essay she considers what makes terrorism wrong--whether it is the intention to harm civilians, rather than harm to them being 'collateral damage,' or something else--and whether terrorism is always wrong. The third essay discusses whether having a right reason, in the sense of a right intention, is necessary in order for a war to be just. Kamm then examines ways in which the harms of war can be proportional to the achievement of the just cause and other goods that war can bring about, so as to make the declaration of war permissible.

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