Virtuous Violence
What motivates violence? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others or themselves? In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to… Celý popis ↓
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Virtuous Violence
What motivates violence? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others or themselves?
In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships according to cultural precepts, precedents, and prototypes. This provocative and radical book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. These moral motivations apply equally to the violence of the heroes of the Iliad, to parents smacking their child, and to many modern murders and everyday acts of violence.
Virtuous Violence presents a wide-ranging exploration of violence across different cultures and historical eras, demonstrating how people feel obligated to violently create, sustain, end, and honor social
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- Výrobca
- Cambridge University Press
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