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How Terrorism Is Wrong - Morality and Political Violence (Hardcover)
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How Terrorism Is Wrong - Morality and Political Violence (Hardcover)
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What is terrorism? How is it different from other kinds of
political violence? Why exactly is it wrong? Why is war often
thought capable of being justified? On what grounds should we judge
when the use of violence is morally acceptable? It is often thought
that using violence to uphold and enforce the rule of law can be
justified, that violence used in self-defense is acceptable, and
that some liberation movements can be excused for using
violence--but that terrorism is always wrong. How persuasive are
these arguments, and on what bases should we judge them?
How Terrorism is Wrong collects articles by Virginia Held along
with much new material. It offers a moral assessment of various
forms of political violence, with terrorism the focus of much of
the discussion. Here and throughout, Held examines possible causes
discussed, including the connection between terrorism and
humiliation. Held also considers military intervention,
conventional war, intervention to protect human rights, violence to
prevent political change, and the status and requirements of
international law. She looks at the cases of Rwanda, Kosovo, Iraq,
and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Finally, she explores
questions of who has legitimate authority to engage in justifiable
uses of violence, whether groups can be responsible for ethnic
violence, and how the media should cover terrorism.
Held discusses appropriate ways of engaging in moral evaluation
and improving our moral recommendations concerning the uses of
violence. Just war theory has been developed for violence between
the military forces of conflicting states, but much contemporary
political violence is not of this kind. Held considers the
guidanceoffered by such traditional moral theories as Kantian
ethics and utilitarianism, and also examines what the newer
approach of the ethics of care can contribute to our evaluations of
violence. Care is obviously antithetical to violence since violence
destroys what care takes pains to build; but the ethics of care
recognizes that violence is not likely to disappear from human
affairs, and can offer realistic understandings of how best to
reduce it.
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