The concept of violence / Mark Vorobej.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vorobej, Mark, 1957- author.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study focuses on conceptual questions that arise when we explore the fundamental aspects of violence. 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.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Interpersonal Violence; 1.1 Semantics; 1.2 HAVIN; 1.3 OED; 1.4 Normative Neutrality; 1.5 Social Harmony; 1.6 Foreseeability; 1.7 Prima Facie Wrongness; 1.8 Intentionality; 1.9 Harm; 1.10 Instrumentality; 1.11 Psychological Harm; 1.12 Collective Violence; 1.13 Avoiding Violence; 2 Structural Violence; 2.1 Actual and Potential Realizations; 2.2 Human Flourishing; 2.3 Reflective Equilibrium; 2.4 A Metaphysical Reading; 2.5 An Epistemological Reading; 2.6 Avoidable Harm; 2.7 Structural Causality; 2.8 Ignorance; 2.9 The Moral Point of View

2.10 Inequality2.11 Progressive Consequentialism; 3 A Hybrid Account; 3.1 Agents of Structural Violence; 3.2 Hybridity; 3.3 Self-Defeating Behaviour; 3.4 Means and Ends; 3.5 Morality and Vulnerability; 3.6 Physical Violence; 3.7 Psychological Violence; 3.8 Cultural Violence; 3.9 A Homework Exercise; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-317-28603-0

1-315-64344-8

1-317-28602-2

9781315643441

OCLC:

941779252