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Anne Schwenkenbecher examines the most urgent philosophical questions pertaining to the problem of terrorism: What is terrorism, or, how should it be defined? And could terrorism ever be justified? The book questions well established frameworks and widely held convictions: it denies that terrorism is always wrong and morally worse than war. It invites the reader to approach these matters from a new perspective, according to which terrorism is just one of many forms of political violence. It argues that if war can be justified then so can terrorism. Despite the large academic literature on terrorism, there are still urgent and thus far unanswered philosophical questions pertaining to the conceptualization and the moral evaluation of terrorism. Apart from relying on intrinsically flawed definitions of terrorism, many academics apply double standards when discussing this problem. Anne Schwenkenbecher's motivation for the project is to provide a comprehensive debate of both the concept and the ethics of terrorism which seeks to avoid these shortcomings.
| Acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Defining 'Terrorism' | |
| On the Current Debate on Defining Terrorism | p. 9 |
| Particularities of the term 'terrorism' | p. 9 |
| The lowest common denominator of terrorism definitions | p. 12 |
| The terrorist method | p. 15 |
| State and non-state terrorism | p. 21 |
| Innocent victims? | p. 30 |
| What Is Terrorism? | p. 38 |
| Defining terrorism | p. 38 |
| War, guerrilla and political assassination | p. 41 |
| Terrorism as a philosophical problem | p. 45 |
| Ethics of Terrorism Or Can Terrorism Ever Be Permissible? | |
| Innocents and Non-innocents | p. 51 |
| On the conceptual difference between innocents and non-innocents | p. 51 |
| Collective moral responsibility | p. 56 |
| Who is non-innocent? | p. 60 |
| The moral status of soldiers | p. 62 |
| The moral difference between killing innocents and killing non-innocents | p. 64 |
| Terrorism against Non-innocents | p. 67 |
| Preliminaries to the problem of terrorist killing | p. 67 |
| Terrorism as self-defence | p. 72 |
| Terrorism as just war | p. 76 |
| Criteria for assessing terrorism against non-innocents | p. 83 |
| Morally justified terrorism? | p. 105 |
| Terrorism against Innocents | p. 115 |
| Terrorism and the right to a just distribution of rights violations | p. 116 |
| Terrorism and supreme emergency | p. 125 |
| Revising supreme emergency | p. 135 |
| Collateral Damage | p. 141 |
| Typology of collateral damage | p. 143 |
| The doctrine of double effect | p. 147 |
| Terrorism and collateral damage | p. 151 |
| Concluding Remarks | p. 157 |
| Notes | p. 160 |
| Bibliography | p. 179 |
| Index | p. 189 |
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ISBN: 9780230363984
ISBN-10: 0230363989
Audience:
Tertiary; University or College
Format:
Hardcover
Language:
English
Number Of Pages: 200
Published: 22nd June 2012
Dimensions (cm): 22.2 x 14.1
x 1.0
Weight (kg): 0.36
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