TORTURE, ILL-TREATMENT, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
TORTURE, ILL-TREATMENT, AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Author(s): Maria Gabriela Zoană Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: torture; ill-treatment; human rights; dignity; identity
Summary/Abstract: This paper seeks to fill a gap in the current literature by examining different aspects of the role torture plays in the creation of political identity, the effect of pain on the torture victim’s identity or subjectivity, the elasticity of legal rights in the face of torture, the legal dimensions of human rights discourse, and the statusbound idea of human dignity. The overall results provide strong evidence for features of torture, the actual long-term effects of torture, the semantic content of torture, the presumed moral permissibility of torture, and the legal concept of human dignity.
Journal: Review of Contemporary Philosophy
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 196-201
- Page Count: 6
- Language: English
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