{"product_id":"thou-shalt-not-kill-on-the-justification-of-killing-for-liberty-von-andreas-weiss","title":"Thou Shalt Not Kill? On the Justification of Killing for Liberty","description":"\u003cp\u003eEssay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 1,7, University of Birmingham (Department of Political Science and International Studies), course: The Theory and Ethics of Terrorism and Political Violence, language: English, abstract: ¿Thou shalt not kill¿ (Exodus 20: 13). The fifth commandment puts the highest maxim of pacifism into words. In pacifism this maxim is even higher in value than one¿s own life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe core question is whether there can ever be a justification of the use of violence to prevent or reduce existing violence. The realities of our world ceaselessly confront mankind with the cruelty of violence ¿ examples of reckless and random killing without ruth in Nazism, Stalinism, or southern Sudan, Liberia, Congo, Middle East and many more do not need further explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn facing the reality of violence and acknowledging the ethical dilemma of situations of inevitable loss of life this essay presents a deontological approach to the justification of killing for liberty whereby the act of liberation has to be aimed at a constitution of political freedom and its chosen means must not violate humanity. This conditional limitation of killing for the sack of liberty is approached within three parts. Part I deals with the deontological quality of liberty justifying violent acts of self-defence; part II deals with this liberalising use of violence by examining its limits in the fight against oppression and part III defines valid targets of killing for liberty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783668092914\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783668092914","offer_id":39435394416733,"sku":"9783668092914","price":15.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/491cde7b-8b34-4133-b6d4-a04b0f7ef41b.jpg?v=1778303222","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/thou-shalt-not-kill-on-the-justification-of-killing-for-liberty-von-andreas-weiss","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}