| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
History, phenomenology, and moral analysis -- Abolishing torture and the uprising of the rule of law -- Introduction -- Abolishing torture: the dignity of tormentable bodies -- Torture and the rule of law: Beccaria -- The Beccaria thesis -- Forgetting Beccaria -- On being tortured -- Introduction -- Pain: certainty and separateness -- Amiry's torture -- Pain's aversiveness -- Pain: feeling or reason? -- Sovereignty: pain and the other -- Without borders: loss of trust in the world -- The harm of rape, the harm of torture -- Introduction: rape and/as torture -- Moral injury as appearance -- Moral injury as actual: bodily persons -- On being raped -- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: rape -- Exploiting the moral ontology of the body: torture -- Constructing moral dignity -- To be is to live, to be is to be recognized -- Introduction -- To be is to be recognized -- Risk and the necessity of life for self-consciousness -- Being and having a body -- From life to recognition -- Trust as mutual recognition -- Introduction -- The necessity, pervasiveness, and invisibility of trust -- Trust's priority over reason -- Trust in a developmental setting -- On first love: trust as the recognition of intrinsic worth -- "My body ... my physical and metaphysical dignity" -- Why dignity? -- From Nuremberg to Treblinka: the fate of the unlovable -- Without rights, without dignity: from humiliation to devastation -- Dignity and the human form -- The body without dignity -- My body: voluntary and involuntary -- Bodily revolt: respect, self-respect, and dignity -- Concluding remarks : on moral alienation -- The abolition of torture and utilitarian fantasies -- Moral alienation and the persistence of rape. |
| Summary |
In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations-torture-J.M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence that we share as vulnerable and injurable individuals. Beginning with the attempts to abolish torture in the eighteenth century, and then sensitively examining what is suffered in torture and related transgressions, such as rape, Bernstein elaborates a powerful new conception of moral injury. Crucially, he shows, moral injury always involves an injury to the status of an individual as a person-it is a violent assault against his or her dignity. Elaborating on this critical element of moral injury, he demonstrates that the mutual recognitions of trust form the invisible substance of our moral lives, that dignity is a fragile social possession, and that the perspective of ourselves as potential victims is an ineliminable feature of everyday moral experience. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794.
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Beccaria, Cesare, marchese di, 1738-1794. |
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Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Rape -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Rape. |
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Trust -- Social aspects.
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Ethics -- 21st century.
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Trust -- Social aspects. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
| Subject |
Ethics. |
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Sexual assault. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bernstein, J.M. Torture and dignity 9780226266329 (DLC) 2014050162 (OCoLC)898086999 |
| ISBN |
9780226266466 (electronic book) |
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022626646X (electronic book) |
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9780226266329 |
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