Confronting Evils

Confronting Evils
Title Confronting Evils PDF eBook
Author Claudia Card
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages
Release 2010-07-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1139491709

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In 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.

Confronting Evil

Confronting Evil
Title Confronting Evil PDF eBook
Author James Waller
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 425
Release 2016
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0199300704

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This groundbreaking book from one of the foremost leaders in the field presents a fascinating continuum of research-informed strategies to prevent genocide from ever taking place; to avert further atrocities once mass murder occurs; and to prevent further turmoil once a society learns how to rebuild itself.

Confronting Evils

Confronting Evils
Title Confronting Evils PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages
Release 2010
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In this new 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.

Facing Evil

Facing Evil
Title Facing Evil PDF eBook
Author Paul Woodruff
Publisher Open Court Publishing
Pages 324
Release 2001
Genre History
ISBN 9780812695175

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From slavery to the Holocaust to the destruction of the World Trade Center, the specter of human evil continues to haunt and defy all attempts at explanation. This collection of lectures - given at a symposium on evil by prominent scholars, writers, theologians and philosophers - resonates powerfully as we continue to confront the devastation wrought by even a single individual caught in the grip of evil.

Confronting Evil in International Relations

Confronting Evil in International Relations
Title Confronting Evil in International Relations PDF eBook
Author R. Jeffery
Publisher Springer
Pages 234
Release 2008-05-26
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0230612539

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This book offers original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community has available to it in the aftermath of large-scale evils.

Evil as a Crime Against Humanity

Evil as a Crime Against Humanity
Title Evil as a Crime Against Humanity PDF eBook
Author Christof Royer
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 264
Release 2020-08-29
Genre Political Science
ISBN 3030538176

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This book seeks to reimagine why and how to confront mass atrocities in world politics. Drawing on Hannah Arendt’s conception of evil, it interprets and understands mass atrocities as ‘evil’ in an ‘Arendtian’ sense, that is, as crimes against human plurality and, thus, crimes against humanity itself. This understanding of mass atrocities paves the way for reframing responses to mass atrocities as attempts to confront evil. In doing so, the book focuses on military intervention under the banner of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and judicial intervention by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and reframes them as tools to protect human plurality from evil. Furthermore, the book looks at the place and the role of R2P and the ICC in the changing landscape of world order. It argues that the protection of humanity from evil can serve as a legitimate Grundnorm (basic norm) around which a global constitutional order in an inherently pluralistic world can be constructed.

First, Do No Unjust Harm

First, Do No Unjust Harm
Title First, Do No Unjust Harm PDF eBook
Author John Pletz
Publisher Rlpg/Galleys
Pages 188
Release 2003
Genre Philosophy
ISBN

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Defining "evil," after some deliberation, as a harmful act for which someone is responsible that has no moral justification, the author presents a philosophical argument on recognizing evil using "means" and "ends" analysis. He then discusses why evil should be opposed by individuals and personal methods for opposing it without causing more harm than good. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).