The absolute violation :
Matthews, Richard.
The absolute violation : why torture must be prohibited / Richard Matthews. - Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008. - xi, 238 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. [221]-232.
Understanding torture -- What about the ticking bomb? -- Why utilitarians must oppose torture -- Torture, tragic choices, and dirty hands -- On neither excusing nor justifying torture.
"State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises." "Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported."--BOOK JACKET.
9780773534223 0773534229 9780773534513 0773534512
2009277188
GBA8A8637 bnb
20089016955 014706164 Uk
Torture--Moral and ethical aspects.
Torture.
Torture.
Torture--Aspect moral.
Martelen.
Folter
Ethik
HV8593 / .M35 2008
323.4/9
The absolute violation : why torture must be prohibited / Richard Matthews. - Montréal [Québec] ; Ithaca [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2008. - xi, 238 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-232) and index.
Includes bibliographical references: p. [221]-232.
Understanding torture -- What about the ticking bomb? -- Why utilitarians must oppose torture -- Torture, tragic choices, and dirty hands -- On neither excusing nor justifying torture.
"State torture has found an increasing number of defenders in law, philosophy, and public policy. Their defences often ignore the empirical literature on torture and thus misunderstand its nature and the damage it does, as well as accepting the illusory benefits it promises." "Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported."--BOOK JACKET.
9780773534223 0773534229 9780773534513 0773534512
2009277188
GBA8A8637 bnb
20089016955 014706164 Uk
Torture--Moral and ethical aspects.
Torture.
Torture.
Torture--Aspect moral.
Martelen.
Folter
Ethik
HV8593 / .M35 2008
323.4/9