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Torture and Dignity - An Essay on Moral Injury (Paperback)
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Torture and Dignity - An Essay on Moral Injury (Paperback)
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In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of
its greatest manifestations-torture-J. M. Bernstein critiques the
repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals
are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on
our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not
only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual
dependence that we share as vulnerable and injurable individuals.
Beginning with the attempts to abolish torture in the eighteenth
century, and then sensitively examining what is suffered in torture
and related transgressions, such as rape, Bernstein elaborates a
powerful new conception of moral injury. Crucially, he shows, moral
injury always involves an injury to the status of an individual as
a person-it is a violent assault against his or her dignity.
Elaborating on this critical element of moral injury, he
demonstrates that the mutual recognitions of trust form the
invisible substance of our moral lives, that dignity is a fragile
social possession, and that the perspective of ourselves as
potential victims is an ineliminable feature of everyday moral
experience.
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