C. A. J. Coady offers to clear up confusion about what terrorism is. His "tactical definition" focuses on terrorist acts as violent attacks upon non-combatants. He discusses what it means to be a non-combatant, considers various philosophical attempts to defend terrorism, and examines the idea of a connection between religion and terrorism.
C. A. J. Coady offers to clear up confusion about what terrorism is. His "tactical definition" focuses on terrorist acts as violent attacks upon non-combatants. He discusses what it means to be a non-combatant, considers various philosophical attempts to defend terrorism, and examines the idea of a connection between religion and terrorism.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
C.A.J. (Tony) Coady is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor, Australian Catholic University. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and Honorary Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Oxford. He is the author of Testimony (OUP, 1992), Morality and Political Violence (Cambridge, 2008), and Messy Morality: the Challenge of Politics (OUP, 2008), and the co-editor of The Ethics of Human Enhancement: Understanding the Debate (OUP, 2016), and Morality, Reality and Killing to Save: the Responsibility to Protect Revisited (OUP, 2018).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction 1: Shaping a Concept of Terrorist Acts: A Clarifying Proposal 2: Further Objections: The Tactical Definition Too Wide? Too Narrow? 3: Terrorism and its Claims to Distinctive Significance 4: Combatants, Non-Combatants, and the Question of Innocence 5: Justifying Terrorism: Four Attempts 6: Justifying Terrorism: Three More Attempts 7: Counter-Terrorism and its Ethical Hazards 8: Religion, War, and Terrorism
Introduction 1: Shaping a Concept of Terrorist Acts: A Clarifying Proposal 2: Further Objections: The Tactical Definition Too Wide? Too Narrow? 3: Terrorism and its Claims to Distinctive Significance 4: Combatants, Non-Combatants, and the Question of Innocence 5: Justifying Terrorism: Four Attempts 6: Justifying Terrorism: Three More Attempts 7: Counter-Terrorism and its Ethical Hazards 8: Religion, War, and Terrorism
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