Steinhoff On the Ethics of Torture

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4623-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

A detailed, clear, and comprehensive overview of the current philosophical debate on toture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Steinhoff, Uwe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. What Is Torture?

2. The Moral Justification of Torture

The Argument from Self-defense
What Is Self-defense?
Proportionality, or: Many Forms of Torture
Are Not as Bad as Killing
The Argument from the Culpability for Creating a Forced-Choice Situation
The Argument from Necessity
Reminder: The Justification of Torture Is Compatible with Rights Absolutism
The Utilitarian Argument

3. Defusing the Ticking-Social-Bomb Argument: Against Consequentialist Attempts to Undermine the Right to Self-defensive Torture

4. Against the Institutionalization of Torture

5. Legalizing Torture?

6. Objections

Attempts to Quickly Dismiss the Argument from Self-defense and Other Rights-based Arguments
The Defenselessness Argument
But Is It Really Self-defense? Whitley Kaufman and Daniel Hill
David Sussman’s Complicity Argument
Kant’s Categorical Imperative: The Three Kantian Formulas
“Breaking the Will” (and “Dignity,” “Subject Status,” and “Self-legislative Rulership”)
Torture and the Doctrine of Double Effect
Is the Ticking-Bomb Example Unrealistic?
“Torture Knows No Limits”

7. Is Justifying Torture Bad Even If Torture Is Sometimes Justified?

Conclusions
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Uwe Steinhoff is Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Hong Kong and Senior Research Associate in the University of Oxford Programme on the Changing Character of War. He is the author of several books, including On the Ethics of War and Terrorism.