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After the terror / Ted Honderich.
LIBRA HV6432 .H66 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Honderich, Ted.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
- Terrorism.
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- Ted Honderich investigates the morality of the September 11th attacks and what terrorism tells us about ourselves and our obligations. Did we have a responsibility for what took place? Did we respond to it as we should have? What are we to do now? "After the Terror" inquires into the "natural fact" of morality and the worked-out moralities of philosophers. It reaches to the moral core of our lives.
- Contents:
- 1. Good Lives, Bad Lives
- Living longer 1
- Other great goods 4
- Half-lives and under-fives 6
- Necessary inquiry 7
- Less than half-lives, and a reason 12
- Reassuring ourselves 14
- Quarter-lives 16
- Larger numbers 18
- Great goods again 20
- More reassurance? 22
- Not an omission 24
- 2. Natural and Other Morality
- Natural morality 30
- More to natural morality, and its inescapability 34
- Worked-out moralities 37
- Libertarianism 40
- Liberalism 46
- The principle of humanity 51
- 3. Did We Wrong Them? Do We Wrong Them?
- Political realism 58
- A morality of relationship 61
- A general distinction, and a mystery 63
- Libertarianism, liberalism, humanity again 69
- Acts and omissions 73
- Causes and conditions 76
- Good intentions 78
- Another hope, and a conclusion or two 81
- 4. The Twin Towers, and Democracy
- Oneness in extremity 89
- Definitions of violence 91
- Terrorism defined 97
- Why some say September 11 was wrong 100
- Democracy 105
- Hierarchic democracy 110
- Why September 11 was wrong 115
- 5. Our Responsibility, and What to do
- Moral confidence 121
- Our share in September 11 124
- Capitalism 129
- Our counter-attack 140
- What is to be done 147
- 6. Later thoughts on Terrorism for Humanity
- Some particular moral propositions 155
- Killing innocents, and the problem of an impulse about it 158
- The morality of humanity again 162
- Whether some terrorism is for humanity 167
- Innocents, our fundamental moral concepts, double effect 170
- Conventional views 175
- Factual and moral truths 177
- Democracy, and a conclusion about convention 181
- Actual justification of some terrorism for humanity 183
- Unrueful Postscript 187.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0748616675
- OCLC:
- 50269494
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