EBOOK Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry - Matthew H. Kramer

EBOOK Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry

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Autor: Matthew H. Kramer

Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191023637
EAN: 5CE81A7DEB
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Stron: 368
Data wydania: 2014
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A Philosophical Enquiry
Torture and Moral Integrity is about the wrongness of torture and the nature of morality. It discusses multiple types of torture with great philosophical acuity and it seeks to explain why interrogational torture and other types of torture are always and everywhere morally wrong. At the same time, it rigorously plumbs the general structure of morality and the intricacies of moral conflicts and it probes some of the chief grounds for the moral illegitimacy of various modesof conduct. It sophisticatedly defends a deontological conception of morality against some subtle critiques that have been mounted during the past few decades by proponents of consequentialism. The book tackles a concrete moral problem: a problem that has been heatedly debated during recent years in the governmental and military institutions of many countries as well as in academic circles. At the same time it tackles some very abstract issues in moral and political philosophy. Moreover, as becomes apparent at numerous junctures, the abstract ruminations and the concrete prescriptions are closely connected: Kramer's recommendations concerning the legal consequences of theperpetration of torture by public officials or private individuals, for example, are based squarely on his more abstract accounts of the nature of torture and the nature of morality. His philosophical reflections on the structure of morality are the vital background for his approach to torture, and hisapproach to torture is a natural outgrowth of those philosophical reflections.

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