This study focuses on conceptual questions that arise when we explore the fundamental aspects of violence. Mark Vorobej teases apart what is meant by the term 'violence,' showing that it is a surprisingly complex, unwieldy and highly contested concept. Rather than attempting to develop a fixed definition of violence, Vorobej explores the varied dimensions of the phenomenon of violence and the questions they raise, addressing the criteria of harm, agency, victimhood, instrumentality, and normativity. Vorobej uses this multifaceted understanding of violence to engage with and complicate existing approaches to the essential nature of violence: first, Vorobej explores the liberal tradition that ties violence to the intentional infliction of harm, and that grows out of a concern for protecting individual liberty or autonomy. He goes on to explore a more progressive tradition - one that is usually associated with the political left - that ties violence to the bare occurrence of harm, and that is more concerned with an equitable promotion of human welfare than with the protection of individual liberty. Finally, the book turns to a tradition that operates with a more robust normative characterization of violence as a morally flawed (or forbidden) response to the ontological fact of (human) vulnerability. This nuanced and in-depth study of the nature of violence will be especially relevant to researchers in applied ethics, peace studies and political philosophy.
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منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک
Ingram Content Group
شماره انبار
9781317286028
ویراست دیگر از اثر در قالب دیگر رسانه
عنوان
Concept of violence
شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي
9781138187016
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
موضوع مستند نشده
Violence-- Philosophy.
موضوع مستند نشده
Violence.
موضوع مستند نشده
PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
موضوع مستند نشده
SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Violence in Society.
موضوع مستند نشده
Violence-- Philosophy.
موضوع مستند نشده
Violence.
مقوله موضوعی
موضوع مستند نشده
PHI-- 005000
موضوع مستند نشده
SOC-- 051000
رده بندی ديویی
شماره
179
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7
ويراست
23
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
B105
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V5
نشانه اثر
V67
2016
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )