...Scola opens by placing the commandment “You shall not kill” in its original context, and then traces how it, along with the rest of the Decalogue, has changed through time. Commentary on the Decalogue shows that this commandment refers only to unjustified killing, offering no judgments on killing...

...The differences in numbering the commandments in various Judeo-Christian traditions are far less interesting than the “linguistic forms” the Decalogue takes on in those traditions. The Latin Bible and its successors in Western European languages command their readers not to “kill.” The Hebrew...

...This chapter explores the ways in which it might be necessary, in order to understand the phenomenon of war in general but especially the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to unlink war from the act of killing and death. This is not to disavow that people die in wars...

...This final chapter examines the violent 2004 killing of several Wisconsin hunters in light of the property issues raised over the course of the book. The tragic property dispute between Hmong immigrant Chai Soua Vang and a group of white hunters is used to underscore the complex interrelationship...

... Supreme Court torture custody Code of Criminal Procedure 1973 vulnerability and language documents file hypertext Kashmir state sponsored killing During my time in Delhi’s courts, I witnessed a trial relating to bombings and attempted bombings in Delhi and a city in Gujarat. The defendants faced...

... Marquis Horkheimer Max Maimonides Thomas Aquinas Saint Kant Immanuel Lévinas Emmanuel Marcel Gabriel Angelini Giuseppe Benedict XVI Pope dignity euthanasia Kant killing relation suicide It is clear that, for whoever lives within the Judeo-Christian tradition, the first responsibility...

...Scola rejects as self-contradictory the idea that man is a mere part among many parts of a universal whole. He then argues that killing is contradictory because nothing worth killing for is worth human life, and turns to Lévinas’s claim that the human face evokes God’s commandment that “You shall...

..., and Derrida—revolve around killing and death. Through readings of these histories and texts, it is shown that war is among the most important achievements of human culture; that it is a complex institution governed by a system of idealized conventions or rituals; and that killing is foremost among...