The Absolute Violation: Why Torture Must Be Prohibited - Softcover

Matthews, Richard S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773534512 ISBN 13: 9780773534513

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry, survivor and torturer narratives, history, feminism, the experience of working intelligence officials, anthropology, and game theory to illustrate that no moral justification for torture can be supported.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard Matthews is assistant professor of philosophy, Mount Allison University.

Review:

"Strikingly original and important." Tom Flanagan, University of Calgary "Gairdner's intellectual range and control his material is breathtaking ... almost no one writing today has the command of the literature in as many disciplines as this author has." Ian Gentles, York University, Ontario

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0773534512
• ISBN 13: 9780773534513
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256