Questions to Our Hermeneutical Approach or: Who Defines, What Is Cruel?

When it comes to human rights violations, the cruelty of the action seems obvious, the enemy seems clear. That is often true, no doubt. But what makes me sure that it is what the victim sees? What if I consider something as cruel, but the victim does not regard it as such? What if I don't see s...

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Main Author: Kayales, Christina 1964- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1995
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 1995, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-35
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