Understanding Violence
This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book's primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for "moral" reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence an…
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- Full title :Understanding Violence.
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This volume sets out to give a philosophical "applied" account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The book's primary thesis is that violence is inescapably intertwined with morality and typically enacted for "moral" reasons. To show this, the book compellingly demonstrates how morality operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete.
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- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer
- Place of Publication:Dordrecht
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (346 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783642219726, 3642219721
- oclc:ocn753480317
- LC Classification:GN495.2
- Dewey Decimal:303.6
Table of Contents
"Military Intelligence" -- The Violent Nature of Language -- Moral Bubbles: Legitimizing and Dissimulating Violence -- Moral and Violent Mediators -- Multiple Individual Moralities May Trigger Violence -- Religion, Morality, and Violence.
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