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Terrorism, Evil, and Everyday Depravity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Bat-Ami Bar On
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Abstract

This essay expresses ambivalence about the use of the term “evil” in analyses of terrorism in light of the association of the two in speeches intended to justify the United States’“war on terrorism.” At the same time, the essay suggests that terrorism can be regarded as “evil” but only when considered among a multiplicity of “evils” com-parable to it, for example: rape, war crimes, and repression.

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Forum on September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives on Terrorism
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Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminist Philosophy and the Problem of Evil , Winter 2003 , pp. 157 - 163
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Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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