The Morality of Terrorism

ISBN-13: 9780820437903 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 180 str.

Haig Khatchadourian

Opis

"The Morality of Terrorism" argues that terrorism violates certain human rights, and just war, and consequentialist moral principles, and so is always wrong. In distinguishing -freedom fighting- from terrorism, this study lays down stringent conditions derived from just war theory, for the moral justifiability of -freedom fighting-, such as some revolutions, civil wars, and guerilla warfare. This book then evaluates the morality of actual and possible judicial and military responses to terrorism by targeted governments. An appendix provides a case study (the Palestine problem) of root causes of political and moralistic-religious terrorism."

O autorze

The Author: Haig Khatchadourian, a native of the Old City of Jerusalem, is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He has a B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. from the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and a Ph.D. from Duke University. In addition to numerous articles in philosophical journals, he has previously published five books on philosophy and one volume of poetry.