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TERRORISM, SELF‐DEFENSE, AND WHISTLEBLOWING
Author(s) -
Westra Laura
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of social philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1467-9833
pISSN - 0047-2786
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9833.1989.tb00459.x
Subject(s) - terrorism , argument (complex analysis) , context (archaeology) , criminology , political science , self defense , law , law and economics , sociology , epistemology , philosophy , history , medicine , archaeology
In a recent paper given at a Symposium on terrorism, Thomas Hill, Jr., discussed “Making Exceptions Without Abandoning the Principle: Or How a Kantian Might Think about Terrorism.” His argument, however, after acknowledging that “terrorists of course often claim to have morally worthy ends and also means that are morally justified in the context,” and further stating that “some such claims deserve a serious hearing,” 1 goes on to deal with the related question of …what one may justifiably do in response to morally indefensible terrorism. 2