Confronting evils Claudia Card terrorism, torture, genocide
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TextPublication details: Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2010Description: xix, 329 p. 23 cmISBN: - 0521728362
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 of
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