The Lesser Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lesser Evil write by Michael Ignatieff. This book was released on 2005-09-04. The Lesser Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Must we fight terrorism with terror, match assassination with assassination, and torture with torture? Must we sacrifice civil liberty to protect public safety? In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But we are pulled in the other direction too by the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terror without losing our democratic souls. Michael Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on, with the combination of hard-headed idealism, historical sensitivity, and political judgment that has made him one of the most influential voices in international affairs today. Ignatieff argues that we must not shrink from the use of violence--that far from undermining liberal democracy, force can be necessary for its survival. But its use must be measured, not a program of torture and revenge. And we must not fool ourselves that whatever we do in the name of freedom and democracy is good. We may need to kill to fight the greater evil of terrorism, but we must never pretend that doing so is anything better than a lesser evil. In making this case, Ignatieff traces the modern history of terrorism and counter-terrorism, from the nihilists of Czarist Russia and the militias of Weimar Germany to the IRA and the unprecedented menace of Al Qaeda, with its suicidal agents bent on mass destruction. He shows how the most potent response to terror has been force, decisive and direct, but--just as important--restrained. The public scrutiny and political ethics that motivate restraint also give democracy its strongest weapon: the moral power to endure when the furies of vengeance and hatred are spent. The book is based on the Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 2003.
Choosing the Lesser Evil
Choosing the Lesser Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choosing the Lesser Evil write by Liesbet Heyse. This book was released on 2016-05-23. Choosing the Lesser Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations initiate, terminate and extend their project activities? Humanitarian aid organizations regularly face difficult decisions about life and death in a context of serious time constraints which force them daily to select whom to help and whom not to help. Liesbet Heyse focuses on how humanitarian aid organizations make these decisions and provides an inside view of the decision making processes. Two NGO case studies are used as illustration - Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) and Acting with Churches Together (ACT) - both of which operate in an international network and represent specific types of NGOs often found in the community. This book opens up the black box of NGO operations, provides an empirical account of organizational decision making and combines insights of organization theory and organizational decision making theory.
Lesser Evils
Lesser Evils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lesser Evils write by Alydia Smith. This book was released on 2021-12-13. Lesser Evils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does your faith inform your daily choices? Lesser Evils reflects on the decisions we make every day, from “Do I take this parking space?” to “Do I wear this mask?” to “Do I choose to forgive you?” Daily scripture, reflections, personal questions, and prayers for individual devotions or group study explore how to attempt to seek wisdom and do good as followers of Jesus. A study guide for groups is included.
The Least of All Possible Evils
The Least of All Possible Evils - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Least of All Possible Evils write by Eyal Weizman. This book was released on 2012-06-19. The Least of All Possible Evils available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian intervention The principle of the “lesser evil”—the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice—has long been a cornerstone of Western ethical philosophy. From its roots in classical ethics and Christian theology, to Hannah Arendt’s exploration of the work of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi regime, Weizman explores its development in three key transformations of the problem: the defining intervention of Médecins Sans Frontières in mid-1980s Ethiopia; the separation wall in Israel-Palestine; and international and human rights law in Bosnia, Gaza and Iraq. Drawing on a wealth of new research, Weizman charts the latest manifestation of this age-old idea. In doing so he shows how military and political intervention acquired a new “humanitarian” acceptability and legality in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Choosing the Lesser Evil
Choosing the Lesser Evil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Choosing the Lesser Evil write by Sugata Marjit. This book was released on 1990. Choosing the Lesser Evil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
