Open AccessPolityka, wojna, przemoc
Author(s) -
Joanna Górnicka
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
etyka
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2392-1161
pISSN - 0014-2263
DOI - 10.14394/etyka.661
Subject(s) - terrorism , front (military) , politics , just war theory , set (abstract data type) , political science , political violence , law , epistemology , law and economics , criminology , sociology , social psychology , spanish civil war , psychology , philosophy , geography , computer science , meteorology , programming language
We used to consider ethics as a set of universal principles valid in every situation. It would be interesting however to ask if our activity in public or strictly political areas is to be submitted to the same criteria of moral evaluations as individual actions? What does just war mean? How far are we inclined to justify some moral aspects of war? What is the difference between the evil caused by acts of terrorism and the violence due to open military actions? Those are the questions the Author of this paper tries to answer in front of intensifying acts of ruthless political terror.