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^ Read ! Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror by Charles Fried, Gregory Fried ß eBook or Kindle ePUB. Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror Because Humans Are Sacred "Because It Is Wrong" is a short but profound book about the morality and legality of torture in the war on terror. It is very tightly argued: the reader needs to pay attention to every sentence -- and maybe read the book twice -- to follow the reasoning fully. But that doesn't mean the book is rushed. On the contrary, its main value is the way it cuts directly to first principles -- and once we accept its basic idea that consequentialism doesn't capture our moral intui
| Title | : | Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.50 (896 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393350045 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-27 |
| Language | : | English |
Because Humans Are Sacred "Because It Is Wrong" is a short but profound book about the morality and legality of torture in the war on terror. It is very tightly argued: the reader needs to pay attention to every sentence -- and maybe read the book twice -- to follow the reasoning fully. But that doesn't mean the book is rushed. On the contrary, its main value is the way it cuts directly to first principles -- and once we accept its basic idea that consequentialism doesn't capture our moral intuitions about the way people should be treated, then lurid "ticking bomb" scenarios lose their grip on our thinking. Conservatives will hate "Because I. Hande Z said Tough call. The authors dealt with two issues: torture and privacy and questioned whether the public rights under the Constitution must be protected against torture and invasions of privacy 'at all costs' or can they be permitted under certain circumstances. The issues are difficult to handle and the answers might not be absolutely clear (although to the authors they are). On paper the authors are a formidable pairing of a law professor and a philosophy professor, but the more well-read reader may find their arguments lacking in depth, and in the various places where they refer to the authority of God as a source of authority, . Kathy Connolly said An important, balanced, and thoughtful work. It's wonderful to see a father and son of very different political persuasions come together to discuss a divisive topic. (I shudder to think of the number of family discussions that have devolved into hopeless ugliness around well-intentioned discussions of torture, policy, and privacy). The book is a thoughtful synthesis for the most part, but where the men agree to disagree, they go into their own voices so each can make his own case. I know of no better resource for learning about and discussing an important topic that is all too easy to look away from but so important to our future as a free society.
Elevating the torture and privacy debate, this book brilliantly challenges the knee-jerk responses of those in media and government. Can torture ever be justified? When is eavesdropping acceptable? Should a kidnapper be waterboarded to reveal where his victim has been hidden? Ever since 9/11 there has been an intense debate about the government’s application of torture and the pervasive use of eavesdropping and data mining in order to thwart acts of terrorism. This is a moral and philosophical meditation on some of the most urgent issues of our time.. Because It Is Wrong not only discusses the behavior and justifications of Bush government officials but also examines more broadly what should be done when high officials have broken moral and legal norms in an attempt to protect us. To create this seminal statement on torture and surveillance, Charles Fried and Gregory Fried have measured current controversies against the philosophies of Aristotle, Locke, Kant, and Machiavelli, and against the historic decisions, la
He served as solicitor general of the United States in the Reagan administration and as a judge on the highest court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. . His books include Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government, Right and Wrong, and (with his son, Gregory Fried) Because It Is Wrong.Gregory Fried, is chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor Law at the Harvard Law School, has taught and written about legal philosophy and const
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . Charles Fried, professor of law at Harvard University, and son Gregory Fried (Heidegger's Polemos), chair of philosophy chair at Suffolk University, eschew a consequentialist approach in favor of determining the inherent ethical value of the "the two signal controversies" of the age accompanied by examples gleaned from visual arts, film, and history. The authors conclude that torture, insofar as it violates the physical and psychological wellbeing of human beings, can be considered "absolutely wrong." Conversely, they do not see privacy as absolute and sacred, and they make allowances for situations in which the government might need to violate it. While the authors agree that the Bush administration's torture p
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