Torture and Dignity
Subtitle: An Essay on Moral Injury
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780226266329
Subjects: Beccaria, cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794; Torture; Rape; Trust; Ethics
Description: In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations - torture, the author critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence that we share as vulnerable and injurable individuals.