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  1. Vice Dressed as Virtue.Paul Russell - 2020 - Aeon.
    Cruelty and morality seem like polar opposites – until they join forces. Beware those who persecute in the name of principle... -/- Following in the steps of Michel de Montaigne, the distinguished political philosopher Judith Shklar has argued that cruelty should be considered the supreme evil and that we should put it first among the vices. The essence of cruelty is to wilfully and needlessly inflict pain and suffering on another creature – be it an animal or a human being. (...)
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  2. Humanism and Cruelty in Williams.Lorenzo Greco - 2018 - In Sophie Grace Chappell & Marcel van Ackeren (eds.), Ethics Beyond the Limits: New Essays on Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. New York: Routledge. pp. 84-103.
  3. Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave, and Exterminate Others.David Livingstone Smith - 2011 - St. Martins Press.
  4. Collectivities and Cruelty.Joan Cocks - 2004 - Political Theory 32 (3):419-426.
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  5. Review: Collectivities and Cruelty. [REVIEW]Joan Cocks - 2004 - Political Theory 32 (3):419 - 426.
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  6. Evil revisited - responses to Hamilton.Eve Garrard - 1999 - Philosophical Explorations 2 (2):139 – 142.
    In "The Nature of Evil"2 I offer an analysis of evil action, in a sense distinct from merely very wrong action, in which I claim that the evil act is one in which the agent silences overwhelming considerations against performing the act. Christopher Hamilton 's interesting commentary raises five objections against my account of evil in terms of silenced reasons I shall argue that all five objections can be met.
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  7. Carnivals of Atrocity.James Miller - 1990 - Political Theory 18 (3):470-491.
    It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.Michel Foucault (1962).
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