ABSTRACT
When Santoni asked how Sartre can ever be justifi ed in supporting revolutionary violence, he had in mind that whatever positive effects revolutions had for the oppressed can never serve as suffi cient reasons for the use of violence. Framing the problem for Sartre, he pointed to the ‘humanizing’ effects of revolt as his best defense. Building on the earlier explanation of revolutionary violence as a right against a situation of violence, this chapter outlines the structure of revolutionary violence and addresses the ‘humanizing’ effects involved before examining the moral permissibility of the ‘war on terror’.
