02262nam a22003618a 4500 CR9780511782114 UkCbUP 20180107143413.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 100519s2010||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9780511782114 (ebook) 9780521899611 (hardback) 9780521728362 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda BJ1401 .C293 2010 170 22 Card, Claudia, author. Confronting Evils : Terrorism, Torture, Genocide / [electronic resource] Claudia Card. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010. 1 online resource (350 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). In this contribution to philosophical ethics, Claudia Card revisits the theory of evil developed in her earlier book The Atrocity Paradigm (2002), and expands it to consider collectively perpetrated and collectively suffered atrocities. Redefining evil as a secular concept and focusing on the inexcusability - rather than the culpability - of atrocities, Card examines the tension between responding to evils and preserving humanitarian values. This stimulating and often provocative book contends that understanding the evils in terrorism, torture and genocide enables us to recognise similar evils in everyday life: daily life under oppressive regimes and in racist environments; violence against women, including in the home; violence and executions in prisons; hate crimes; and violence against animals. Card analyses torture, terrorism and genocide in the light of recent atrocities, considering whether there can be moral justifications for terrorism and torture, and providing conceptual tools to distinguish genocide from non-genocidal mass slaughter. Good and evil Terrorism Torture Genocide Print version: 9780521899611 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511782114 Cambridge Books Online 236536 236536