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Mainstreaming Torture - Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States (Hardcover)
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Mainstreaming Torture - Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 United States (Hardcover)
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 reopened what many
people in America had long assumed was a settled ethical question:
Is torture ever morally permissible? Within days, some began to
suggest that, in these new circumstances, the new answer was yes.
Rebecca Gordon argues that September 11 did not, as some have said,
change everything, and that institutionalized state torture remains
as wrong today as it was on the day before those terrible attacks.
Furthermore, U.S. practices during the war on terror are rooted in
a history that began long before September 11, a history that
includes both support for torture regimes abroad and the use of
torture in American jails and prisons.The terrorist attacks of
September 11, 2001 reopened what Gordon argues that the most common
ethical approaches to tortureutilitarianism and deontology (ethics
based on adherence to duty)do not provide sufficient theoretical
purchase on the problem. Both approaches treat torture as a series
of isolated actions that arise in moments of extremity, rather than
as an ongoing, historically and socially embedded practice. She
advocates instead a virtue ethics approach, based in part on the
work of Alasdair MacIntyre. Such an approach better illumines
tortures ethical dimensions, taking into account the implications
of torture for human virtue and flourishing. An examination of
torture's effect on the four cardinal virtuescourage, temperance,
justice, and prudence (or practical reason)suggests specific ways
in which each of these are deformed in a society that countenances
torture.many people in America had long assumed was a settled
Mainstreaming Torture concludes with the observation that if the
United States is to come to terms with its involvement in
institutionalized state torture, there must be a full and official
accounting of what has been done, and those responsible at the
highest levels must be held accountable.
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