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020 _a9780511782114 (ebook)
020 _z9780521899611 (hardback)
020 _z9780521728362 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_beng
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_cUkCbUP
_dBD-SySUS.
050 0 0 _aBJ1401
_b.C293 2010
082 0 0 _a170
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100 1 _aCard, Claudia,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aConfronting Evils :
_bTerrorism, Torture, Genocide /
_cClaudia Card.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2010.
300 _a1 online resource (350 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520 _aIn this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals. Card analyses torture, terrorism and genocide in the light of recent atrocities, considering whether there can be moral justifications for terrorism and torture, and providing conceptual tools to distinguish genocide from non-genocidal mass slaughter.
650 0 _aGood and evil
650 0 _aTerrorism
650 0 _aTorture
650 0 _aGenocide
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521899611
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782114
942 _2Dewey Decimal Classification
_ceBooks
999 _c37913
_d37913