A Delicate Balance
What Philosophy Can Tell Us About Terrorism
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Word Count
48,000 words, Guess
Page Count
192 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivedelicatebalancew00govi
- ISBN-100813365856
- ISBN-139780813365855
- Goodreads1048912
- Library of Congress Control Number2002004932
and 3 more
- OCLC Control Number49558613
- Better World Books9780813365855
- Open LibraryOL8024285M
Classifications
- LCCBJ1459.5 .G68 2002
- LCCBJ1459.5.G68 2002
Description
"Did the world change on September 11, 2001? For those who live outside of New York or Washington, life's familiar pace persists and families and jobs resume their routines. Yet everything seems different because of the dramatic disturbance to our sense of what our world means and how we exist within it. In A Delicate Balance, philosopher Trudy Govier writes that it is because our feelings and attitudes have altered so fundamentally that our world has changed.". "Govier believes that there are ethical challenges we cannot ignore. From Plato and Aristotle on courage, to Kant on revenge, to twentieth century philosopher John Rawls's views on justice, Govier mines the world of philosophy to reflect on terrorism. Govier argues that moral complexities such as victimhood, evil, power, and revenge, if properly understood, can provide a basis for hope - not despair. Govier walks the reader through this shift, challenging us to construct a new sense of the world and our place within it."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
Terrorist acts bring violence to ordinary people not normally central to a political conflict.
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