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Facing Our Humanity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Drucilla Cornell
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Abstract

This article argues that U.S. aggression against Afghanistan must be challenged through our support of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and their political program. It does so not only by considering competing judgments about what constitutes women's rights, but also through an appeal to the Kantian ideal of humanity and its relation to how we can re-think both terrorism and the treatment of those accused of terrorist activity.

Type
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. 170 - 174
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.

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