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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Main Author: Cole, Darrell (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2012
In: 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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