The lesser evil : political ethics in an age of terror
Must We Fight Terrorism with terror, match assassination with assassination, and torture with torture? Must we sacrifice civil liberty to protect public safety? In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction, too, by the anxiety...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton:
Princeton University Press,
c2004..
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| Series: | The Gifford lectures
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Table of Contents:
- Democracy and the lesser evil
- The ethics of emergency
- The weakness of the strong
- The strength of the weak
- The temptations of nihilism
- Liberty and Armageddon.