• The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror Майкл Игнатьев
    ISBN: 0691123934, 9780691123936
    Год издания: 2005
    Издательство: Princeton University Press
    Язык: Английский

    Must we fight terrorism with terror, match assassination with assassination, and torture with torture? Must we sacrifice civil liberty to protect public safety? In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction too by the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls. Michael Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on, with the combination of hard-headed idealism, historical sensitivity,…

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