The Moral Permissibility of Torture in a Terrorized World and The Problem of Dirty Hands (thesis)

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Foster, Stephanie L.
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Washington and Lee University -- Honors in Philosophy
Torture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Ethics
Terrorism
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Thesis; [FULL-TEXT FREELY AVAILABLE ONLINE] Stephanie L. Foster is a member of the Class of 2016 of Washington and Lee University. In this paper, I will argue that despite philosophers' and legal theorists' attempts to justify the use of torture in certain situations, torture has always been and will always be universally morally impermissible. [From Introduction] Stephanie Lynn Foster