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100 1  Steinhoff, Uwe 
245 10 On the Ethics of Torture 
264  1 Albany :|bState University of New York Press,|c2013 
264  4 |c©2013 
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505 0  Intro -- On the Ethics of Torture -- Contents -- Preface -
       - Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: What Is 
       Torture? -- Chapter 2: The Moral Justification of Torture 
       -- 2.1 The Argument from Self-defense -- 2.1.1 What Is 
       Self-defense? -- 2.1.2 Proportionality, or: Many Forms of 
       Torture Are Not as Bad as Killing -- 2.2 The Argument from
       the Culpability for Creating a Forced-Choice Situation -- 
       2.3 The Argument from Necessity -- 2.4 Reminder: The 
       Justification of Torture Is Compatible with Rights 
       Absolutism -- 2.5 The Utilitarian Argument -- Chapter 3: 
       Defusing the Ticking-Social-Bomb Argument: Against 
       Consequentialist Attempts to Undermine the Right to Self-
       defensive Torture -- Chapter 4: Against the 
       Institutionalization of Torture -- Chapter 5: Legalizing 
       Torture? -- Chapter 6: Objections -- 6.1 Attempts to 
       Quickly Dismiss the Argument from Self-defense and Other 
       Rights-based Arguments -- 6.2 The Defenselessness Argument
       -- 6.3 But Is It Really Self-defense? Whitley Kaufman and 
       Daniel Hill -- 6.4 David Sussman's Complicity Argument -- 
       6.5 Kant's Categorical Imperative: The Three Kantian 
       Formulas -- 6.6 "Breaking the Will" (and "Dignity," 
       "Subject Status," and "Self-legislative Rulership") -- 6.7
       Torture and the Doctrine of Double Effect -- 6.8 Is the 
       Ticking-Bomb Example Unrealistic? -- 6.9 "Torture Knows No
       Limits" -- Chapter 7: Is Justifying Torture Bad Even If 
       Torture Is Sometimes Justified? -- Conclusions -- Notes --
       References -- Index 
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650  0 Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects.;Punishment -- Moral 
       and ethical aspects 
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