"Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban of torture and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do - or do not - adhere to it i…
"Torture: A Collection brings together leading lawyers, political theorists, social scientists, and public intellectuals to debate the advisability of maintaining the absolute ban of torture and to reflect on what it says about our societies if we do - or do not - adhere to it i…
Torture is perhaps the most unequivocally banned practice in the world today. Yet recent photographs from Abu Ghraib substantiated claims that the United States and some of its allies are using methods of questioning relating to the war on terrorism that could be described as to…
The morality of interrogational torture has been the subject of heated debate in recent years. In explaining why torture is morally wrong, Matthew Kramer engages in deep philosophical reflections on the nature of morality and on moral conflicts.
In this engrossing analysis, Cavanaugh contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline.
Torture is the most widespread human rights crime in the modern world, practiced in more than one hundred countries, including the United States. How could something so brutal, almost unthinkable, be so prevalent? The Phenomenon of Torture: Readings and Commentary is designed to…