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Michael M oore on Torture, Morality, and Law
Author(s) -
Kramer Matthew H.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9337.2012.00523.x
Subject(s) - torture , morality , law , philosophy , character (mathematics) , political science , sociology , human rights , mathematics , geometry
During the past few decades, Michael M oore has written incisively on an array of matters concerning the relationships between law and morality. While reflecting on those relationships, he has plumbed the nature of morality itself in impressive depth. Among the topics which he has addressed, the problem of torture has been prominent and controversial. It is a problem, moreover, that has led to some of his most searching enquiries into the character of moral obligations. In the present essay I take issue not only with many of M oore's conclusions about torture, but also with some of his more far‐reaching claims about the domain of morality.