After the terror
Editorial EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- ISBN13 9780748616671
- ISBN10 0748616675
- Type Book
- Pages 160
- Published 2003
- Language English
- Bookbinding Cloth
Sections
EssaysAfter the terror
Editorial EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mainland Spain
Book Details
"In the aftermath of September 11th After the Terror asks what terrorism can tell us about ourselves and our moral obligations. It pits a 'morality of humanity' - a morality of sympathy, generosity and fellow-feeling - against conventional, unreflective morality." In this expanded new paperback edition, Ted Honderich has more to say of the idea of 'terrorism for humanity' - political violence committed to rescuing people from wretchedness and deprivation. In this philosophy that goes against a consensus of civility about lives we are destroying and homelands we are helping to violate. Britain's outstanding radical philosopher requires us to think more carefully about our own existence and our trust in our democratic governments.