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Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry

Torture and Moral Integrity: A Philosophical Enquiry

Author: Matthew H. Kramer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198842590

Published In: February 2019
Format: Paperback , 368 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Hardback Edition ISBN: 9780198714200

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Addresses key contentious issues surrounding the morality of torture in all contexts
A rigorous defence of deontological absolutism in the face of consequentialist critiques, vindicating an absolutist stance on torture
Connects abstract ideas in moral philosophy and concrete public-policy recommendations

Torture and Moral Integrity is about the wrongness of torture and the nature of morality. It discusses multiple types of torture with great philosophical acuity and it seeks to explain why interrogational torture and other types of torture are always and everywhere morally wrong. At the same time, it rigorously plumbs the general structure of morality and the intricacies of moral conflicts and it probes some of the chief grounds for the moral illegitimacy of various modes of conduct. It sophisticatedly defends a deontological conception of morality against some subtle critiques that have been mounted during the past few decades by proponents of consequentialism.
The book tackles a concrete moral problem: a problem that has been heatedly debated during recent years in the governmental and military institutions of many countries as well as in academic circles. At the same time it tackles some very abstract issues in moral and political philosophy. Moreover, as becomes apparent at numerous junctures, the abstract ruminations and the concrete prescriptions are closely connected: Kramer's recommendations concerning the legal consequences of the perpetration of torture by public officials or private individuals, for example, are based squarely on his more abstract accounts of the nature of torture and the nature of morality. His philosophical reflections on the structure of morality are the vital background for his approach to torture, and his approach to torture is a natural outgrowth of those philosophical reflections.

Readership: Advanced students in legal and political philosophy, and criminal justice; legal and political philosophers; lawyers who specialize in human rights

1: Introduction I: Moral Conflicts and Deontology
2: Introduction II: What is Torture?
3: Why Torture is Wrong
4: The Rationality of Deontological Constraints
5: Legal Responses to Torture
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Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge; Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge; and Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy. He is the author of thirteen previous books and the co-editor of four other books.