TORTURE AND JUST WAR
I offer an argument for why torture, as an act of state-sponsored force to gain information crucial to the well-being of the common good, should be considered as a tactic of war, and therefore scrutinized in terms of just war theory. I argue that, for those committed to the justifiability of the use...
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Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2012
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 26-51 |
Further subjects: | B
Human Dignity
B Law B Torture B just war tradition B Virtue Ethics B Christian Ethics |
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