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F. M. Kamm

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199608782

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608782.001.0001

Torture: During and After Action

Chapter:
(p. 3 ) 1 Torture: During and After Action
Source:
Ethics for Enemies
Author(s):

F. M. Kamm

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199608782.003.0002

Chapter 1 considers whether, from a nonconsequentialist perspective, those who are responsible for creating lethal threats are liable to be tortured during and after their threatening acts in order to stop those acts or harm from them. Different conceptions of torture and different occasions when torture might occur, in self and other defense, are considered. The aim is to isolate factors bearing on whether torturing a wrongdoer held captive violates human rights and the inviolability persons.

Keywords:   torture, action, threat, inviolability, captive, human rights, nonconsequentialism, self and other defense

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