SOC201H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Moral Authority, Alexis De Tocqueville, For Marx
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Torture: weber vs durkheim: torture: some recent examples, torture as concept, wilful infliction of excruciating pain, who can inflict the pain. Individuals can torture others, criminal offence: states, french state used torture in algeria when fighting rebellion, torture to extract info, sometimes something graticiuous, british authorities torture in ireland. Israeli torture against palestinians who are deemed to have valuable information. Us practiced torture in iraq in a prison abu gareb: can torture be justified, do democratic states have the authority to practice torture. In our day idea that individual is sacred has strong moral authority in our society. In indiv right tramples have to punish because right hold us together it has moral authority: undermining values that are supposed to be holding you together. Ideas of competition, the free market, those who below desire to be below, don"t unify: respect co-esiats with other forms for authority, doesn"t this argument rest on a simplified moral authority.
