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...
Main Author: | Biggar, N |
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Format: | Journal article |
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SAGE Publications
2014
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