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EnglishThe paper approachs the issue "Torture" from a historical perspective. It looks back to renaissance and enlightenment debates about torture as a mean of interrogation, and finds disturbing parallels between those debates and today's political situation. In this context it is particularly instructive the argument of Ch. Thomasius about the political character of torture: it is not simply a mean of interrogation, but a tool for the powerful against their enemies.
| Titolo: | Torture, between Law and Politics: A Retrospective View |
| Autore/i: | LALATTA COSTERBOSA, MARINA |
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| Anno: | 2009 |
| Titolo del libro: | Torture: Moral Absolutes and Ambiguities |
| Pagina iniziale: | 139 |
| Pagina finale: | 146 |
| Abstract: | The paper approachs the issue "Torture" from a historical perspective. It looks back to renaissance and enlightenment debates about torture as a mean of interrogation, and finds disturbing parallels between those debates and today's political situation. In this context it is particularly instructive the argument of Ch. Thomasius about the political character of torture: it is not simply a mean of interrogation, but a tool for the powerful against their enemies. |
| Data prodotto definitivo in UGOV: | 10-feb-2010 |
| Appare nelle tipologie: | 2.01 Capitolo / saggio in libro |
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