After the Terror by Ted Honderich (PDF)

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Ted Honderich investigates the morality of the September 11th attacks and what terrorism tells us about ourselves and our obligations. Did we have a responsibility for what took place? Did we respond to it as we should have? What are we to do now? “After the Terror” inquires into the “natural fact” of morality and the worked-out moralities of philosophers. It reaches to the moral core of our lives.Honderich writes, “We can be held partly responsible for the 3,000 deaths at the twin towers and at the Pentagon. We are rightly to be held responsible along with the killers. We share the guilt. Those who condemn us have a reason to do so. Did we bring the killing at the twin towers on ourselves? Did we have it coming? Those offensive questions, and their offensive, but affirmative answer, do contain a truth.”

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Editorial Reviews: Review “In the flood of literature on terrorism, this essay stands out as unusual, and unusually enlightening and provocative. It guides the reader, lucidly and forcefully, from basic ideas about a good and decent life to contemplation of concrete and immediate issues that are or should be at the center of attention. It is a compelling and impressive contribution to thinking about problems that are complex, painful, and urgent.” — Noam Chomsky”In these bad times, when many intellectuals have become the spear-carriers of the new order, reading the words of Ted Honderich is a rare delight. This uncompromising and courageous philosopher continues the dissenting tradition of Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, more needed now than ever before.” — Tariq Ali”In these bad times, when many intellectuals have become the spear-carriers of the new order, reading the words of Ted Honderich is a rare delight. This uncompromising and courageous philosopher continues the dissenting tradition of Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, more needed now than ever before.” — Tariq Ali About the Author Ted Honderich has been Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, and a Visiting Professor at Yale and in New York.

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⭐Looks at the moral issues around terrorism. Deals with questions like: what is to count as a ‘good life’? Why is terrorism morally wrong? To what extent are Western countries materially and morally responsible for the terrorism they experience? Under what conditions is terrorism morally justified? What kind of opposition to one’s own state is morally justified? Honderich is a consequentialist: his “principle of humanity” is that we should attempt to drag people out of “bad lives”.

⭐Honderich’s After the Terror is indeed a welcome attempt to explain terrorism. However, the philsophical basis of Honderich’s arguements are notably poor, and the reasoning behind his statements weaker still. Honderich’s book is thought provoking in the way theories of intelligent design are thought provoking. They are held to be wrong, and almost entirely indefensible by the whole of the academic community, and yet one should never say alternative theories should be ignored altogether. Although it makes for bad philosophy, one cannot blame those outside the mainstream for attempting to bring some into their flock.

⭐Its been difficult for me to find people who espouse these opinions and also know lots of big words. honderich, safe under an ivory rock, crawling out from time to time to apologise for and encourage murder and atrocities, is one of the few. the only good news – the book was hard to locate at the library. Hondy – what about a move to the terror farms in pakistan and gaza in sympathy?

⭐Few academic philosophers have the guts or the sensitivity of Ted Honderich. For a profession whose Anglo-American branch proudly removed itself from mundane affairs like international politics and the fate of peoples, this little work stands in stark exception. No publication I know captures the background sense of moral reasoning shared by today’s international progressive movement better than this one. Nor are the subtle but deadly shades of culpability among dominant western societies more searchingly revealed. Sure, there is material to gainsay, although the tone is often more probing than assertorial. His thrust, however, is dead-on and should help rouse an irrelevant profession from its long ideological slumber. For those willing to confront the agonizing realities of our age at eye-level, including terrorism, Honderich’s remains an indispensible and provocative tool.

⭐Smart and incisive, the author is capable of feeding us crap in a convincing manner. I only wonder why isn t he working in Iraq, Iran or in Palestine, why is he hiding behind an imoral civilisation he is so eager to condemn?

⭐Ted Honderich takes a trip down victimology lane to explain how the attacks were caused by American foreign policy. While it is fair to make this a hypothesis, the lack of balanced factual discussion in the book lays bare the hidden agenda of the author’s glee in being able to say “I told you so!”The only good thing I can say about the book is at only 160 pages it mercifully short compared to other works on this topic.

⭐After Sep 11 everyone stopped asking why this happened to us, and started concentrating on the revenge war. This book shades a light on a reality that the US Media/Government tries hard to hide.

⭐Honderich appears to have taken leave of his senses and written a terrible book in which he blames one set of terrorists for inciting another set of terrorists to war. Loathsome because it makes the middle east sound like it could have a working solution to it In the end he decides kissing the cheeks of the pallestinians is the right thing to do

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