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| Preface and acknowledgements | |
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| List of acronyms and abbreviations | |
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| The concept of evil | |
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| Inexcusable wrongs | |
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| The Atrocity Paradigm | |
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| Demythologizing evil: Arendt, Milgram, and Zimbardo | |
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| Overview of revisions | |
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| Moral excuses | |
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| Ordinary evils | |
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| Institutional evil: the case of the death penalty | |
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| Between good and evil | |
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| Kant's theses on radical evil | |
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| Kant's moral excluded middle | |
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| Evils vs. lesser wrongs | |
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| Two ways to lack unity in the will | |
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| Gray zones | |
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| Diabolical evil revisited | |
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| Complicity in structural evils | |
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| Collectively perpetrated evils | |
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| Institutions and social structure | |
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| Oppression | |
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| Structural groups | |
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| Complicity in evil practices | |
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| To whom (or to what) can evils be done? | |
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| Contexts and problematic cases | |
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| Harm and well-being | |
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| What makes harm intolerable? | |
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| Degradation and the capacity approach to harm | |
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| Trees as victims | |
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| The �lives� of ecosystems, species, and Gaia | |
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| Harm to human groups | |
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| Concluding questions | |
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| Terrorism, torture, genocide | |
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| Counterterrorism | |
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| Hobbesian and Kantian approaches | |
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| International rules of war vs. subjective improvisations of terrorism | |
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| The military model of countetterrorism | |
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| An analogy with private counterterrorisms | |
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| Justice for the unjust | |
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| Low-profile terrorism | |
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| Two models of terrorism | |
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| War on terrorism and the group target model | |
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| Rape terrorism | |
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| Beyond the two models | |
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| How terrorism works | |
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| Conscientious torture? | |
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| The revived torture debates | |
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| The misnamed �one-off� case | |
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| Dershowitz, the ticking bomb, and torture warrants | |
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| The failures of excuses for conscientious torture | |
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| Ordinary torture | |
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| The experience of Jean Am�ry | |
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| The UN definition | |
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| Applying the UN definition to the �clean� techniques | |
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| Five kinds of ordinary, mostly civilian, torture | |
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| What Bentham's definition misses | |
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| Genocide is social death | |
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| Prologue | |
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| The concept of genocide and philosophical reflection on genocide | |
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| The murder of groups | |
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| The UN definition of �genocide� | |
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| The specific evil of genocide | |
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| Genocide by forced impregnation | |
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| A paradox | |
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| The Brana plan for ethnic cleansing | |
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| How can expulsion and mass rape aimed at expulsion be genocidal? | |
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| �In whole or in part� | |
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| Hate crimes and assimilations | |
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| The �logical glitch� | |
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| Sperm as a biological weapon | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| List of films referred to | |
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| List of websites for international documents | |
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| Index | |