Torture and Dignity
Torture and Dignity In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations-torture-J. M. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express…
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Torture and Dignity
In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations-torture-J. M. Morals, Bernstein argues, not only guide our conduct but also express the depth of mutual dependence that we share as vulnerable and injurable individuals.Beginning with the attempts to abolish torture in the eighteenth century, and then sensitively examining what is suffered in torture and related transgressions, such as rape, Bernstein elaborates a powerful new conception of moral injury. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructions that depend on our experience of suffering itself.
Elaborating on this critical element of Crucially, he shows, moral injury always involves an injury to the status of an individual as a person-it is a violent assault against his or her dignity.