Torture: A CollectionSanford Levinson Oxford University Press, 28 oct. 2004 - 328 pagini Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as torture or, at the very least, as inhuman and degrading. In terror's wake, the use of such methods, at least under some conditions, has gained some prominent defenders, notably from within the White House. In this revised edition, Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do--or do not--adhere to it in all circumstances. New to this edition are essays by Charles Krauthammer and Andrew Sullivan on the adoption in 2005 of the McCain Amendment, which explicitly bars the use of torture and other cruel methods of interrogation. |
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... questions asked in that poem, written over a quarter of a century ago and dealing with the horror spilling out of the Pinochet dictatorship, continue to haunt us today. We can all unfortunately repeat those words from. foreword foreword ...
... questions asked in that poem, written over a quarter of a century ago and dealing with the horror spilling out of the Pinochet dictatorship, continue to haunt us today. We can all unfortunately repeat those words from. foreword foreword ...
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... questions, within the questions, there was indeed the hope that a time would dawn when such terror and absurdity would no longer seem customary or everyday, that this sort of pain inflicted by one man on a defenseless other would not ...
... questions, within the questions, there was indeed the hope that a time would dawn when such terror and absurdity would no longer seem customary or everyday, that this sort of pain inflicted by one man on a defenseless other would not ...
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... question by wondering out loud what it must have meant to be there on that grill and know that you are going to die, know that nobody can save you now. Wouldn't you want justice to be done? That's all I asked. If it were done to you and ...
... question by wondering out loud what it must have meant to be there on that grill and know that you are going to die, know that nobody can save you now. Wouldn't you want justice to be done? That's all I asked. If it were done to you and ...
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... question, more drastic and radical than what country is this? what times do we live in? what kind of world?—a question that wonders if it will ever be possible to completely abolish torture. The question that needs to be examined was ...
... question, more drastic and radical than what country is this? what times do we live in? what kind of world?—a question that wonders if it will ever be possible to completely abolish torture. The question that needs to be examined was ...
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... question, whether they would consciously be able to accept that their dreams of heaven depend on an eternal inferno of distress for one innocent child. We can only hope that, like Alyosha, they would answer no. Doestoevski makes Alyosha ...
... question, whether they would consciously be able to accept that their dreams of heaven depend on an eternal inferno of distress for one innocent child. We can only hope that, like Alyosha, they would answer no. Doestoevski makes Alyosha ...
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Philosophical Considerations | 45 |
Torture as Practiced | 91 |
Contemporary Attempts to Abolish Torture through Law | 143 |
Reflections on the PostSeptember 11 Debate about Legalizing Torture | 255 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 307 |
INDEX | 311 |
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