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My Project
Howard Zinn's Thou Shalt Not Kill questions the morality of war and institutional violence in a humanist context. From pacifist ethics, Zinn believes that violence whether state or individual is self-reinforcing and leads to cycles of oppression and injustice. His argument is in line with deontological ethics, particularly Kant's formula that morality has to be universal and categorical. For Zinn, killing is inherently wrong regardless of justification.
Big Points
- Title: Thou Shalt Not Kill
- Author: Howard Zinn
- Year: 1968
- Publication Place / Publisher: Corinth, Vermont, Black Mountain Press
- Lilly Library Call Number: JC328.3 .Z56 1968
