Individual Rights versus Common Security? Christian Moral Reasoning about Torture

Should a Christian ethic endorse an individual’s right against torture? If so, how should its reasoning take into account considerations of common security? To answer these questions, this article first compares the early Christian ‘just war’ tradition’s pre-liberal reasoning about the ethics of har...

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Main Author: Biggar, Nigel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage 2014
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2014, Volume: 27, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-20
Further subjects:B Human Dignity
B Rights
B Obligation
B Torture
B David Rodin
B Just War
B Social Good
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