A Timeless Debate
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- Introduction
- Augustine's thoughts on free will
- Augustine's 'ideal theory of punitive justice'
- Immanuel Kant: Torture as an unacceptable form of punishment
- Kant's idea of categorical imperative
- Conclusion
Abstract
At a lecture given at our own Stony Brook University, Michael Ratner asserts that "Justice is losing its power" . What Michael Ratner, the defending lawyer for many prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay, means by this daring statement is that America is losing sight of its foundations. He can witness first hand the escalating debate about torture, so central in today's media, and concludes that we are retreating back to the times before our very own constitution was drafted, back to the times before the Magna Carta. Even though we have established laws, people in such places as Guantanamo, as long as they are claimed as "prisoners of war" are neglected the right of due process and many other civil rights, standard for human beings. It is such accusations that fuel this very debate about the rights a government and its agencies have over their prisoners during wartime. For better answers to such an intricate question one could turn to philosophers, particularly the more contemporary ones that have ethical views on the matter. Two such philosophers are Immanuel Kant and Augustine, one from Germany the other from the Roman Empire.
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