Understanding Violence: The Intertwining of Morality, Religion and Violence: A Philosophical Stance

by Lorenzo Magnani

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642270204
• ISBN13: 9783642270208
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"