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How Terrorism is Wrong collects essays by Virginia Held that examine terrorism and other forms of political violence. Held assesses popular attitudes that glorify some kinds of violence and vilify others, and discusses the kinds of moral evaluation appropriate for terrorism, war, violent political change, or repression. This collection suggests ways of improving how we understand and deal with violence.

The author assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. Held examines what we mean by care and focuses on caring relationships. She also looks at the potential of care for dealing with social issues and global problems.

Virginia Held assesses the ethics of care as a promising alternative to the familiar moral theories that serve so inadequately to guide our lives. The ethics of care is only a few decades old, yet it is by now a distinct moral theory or normative approach to the problems we face. It isrelevant to global and political matters as well as to the personal relations that can most clearly exemplify care.This book clarifies just what the ethics of ca...

How Terrorism is Wrong collects articles by Virginia Held along with much new material. It offers a moral assessment of various forms of political violence, with terrorism the focus of much of the discussion.

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Theories of justice, argues Virginia Held, are usually designed for a perfect, hypothetical world. They do not give us guidelines for living in an imperfect world in which the choices and decisions that we must make are seldom clear-cut.

Series Editor's ForewordAcknowledgments1. The Feminist Transformation of Consciousness and Culture2. Feminist Moral Inquiry: Method and Prospects3. Transformations of Moral Concepts4. Moral Theory from a Feminist Perspective5. Shaping Feminist Culture6. Preconceptions of Birth and Death7. Gender and Violence8. Feminist Interpretations of Liberty and Equality9. Democracy and the Critique of Individualism10. Noncontractual Society: The Postpatri...