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Revenge and social conflict /
An in-depth philosophical study of the nature and immorality of revenge.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part I The Nature of Revenge ; 1 Revenge: What It Is and What It Isn't ; 2 A Little Natural History ; 2.1 Homo vindicans? ; 2.2 Human Adaptability and Common Values.
- 3 Interpretations of Harm, Norms of Personal Response 3.1 The Social Construction of Personal Harm ; 3.2 Personal Payback ; 3.3 Revenge as Duty, or as ''Only'' Emotional Response ; 4 Groups as Victims and Avengers ; 4.1 The Moral Status of Groups.
- 4.2 Collective Harm, Solidarity, and Identity 4.3 Can Groups Get Even? ; Part II The Morality of Revenge ; 5 Revenge, Punishment, and the State ; 5.1 Moral Choices and the Role of the Magistrate ; 5.2 State Violence, Personal Violence, and Social Control.
- 6 The Immorality of Revenge, Considering the Consequences 7 Some Nonconsequentialist Responses ; 7.1 Against Revenge, Regardless of Consequences ; 7.2 Trying and Failing to Defend Revenge ; 8 War and Vengeance ; 8.1 The Rancorous Imagination and Warmongering.
- 8.2 Moral Evaluation of War and the Rejection of Collective Revenge 9 Undermining Vengeance, Building Sustainable Peace ; 9.1 Downstream: Vindication without Vindictiveness ; 9.2 Upstream: No More Fear of ''Them, '' No More Anger at ''Them'' ; Bibliography ; Index.