ISBN:
9783642219726
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Engineering Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistomology and Rational Ethics 1
DDC:
303.6
Keywords:
Engineering
;
Ethics
;
Philosophy
;
Engineering mathematics
;
Gewalt
;
Moral
;
Religion
Abstract:
Lorenzo Magnani
Abstract:
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 operates to trigger and justify violence and how people, in their violent behaviors, can engage and disengage with discrete
Description / Table of Contents:
Title Page; Preface; Contents; "Military Intelligence" Coalition Enforcement and the Evolutionary Origin of Morality and Violence; Philosophy: The Luxurious Supplement of Violence; Defining Violence: Violence Is Distributed and Always ``Perceived'' as Such; Coalition Enforcement: Morality and Violence; The Violent Nature of Language Language Is a Tool Exactly Like a Knife; The Violent Nature of Language: Abduction, Pregnances, Affordances; The Awesome and Perverse Academic Face of the Relationships; Moral Bubbles: Legitimizing and Dissimulating Violence Distributing Violence through Fallacies
Description / Table of Contents:
Violence, Language, and ``Writing''Fallacies as Distributed ``Military'' Intelligence; The Semiotic Emergence of Violence through Deception; The Violent Force of Law and of Morality; Ochlocracy: Violently Perverting Democracy and Its Values; Beyond 9/11. Democrats, Speak Out!; Bad News from Evolutionary Game Theory; Moral and Violent Mediators Delegating Ourselves to External Things: Moral/Violent Niches; Cognitive Niches as Moral Niches; ``A Sense of Purposefulness'' in Evolution; Distributing Morality and Violence through Cognitive Niche Construction
Description / Table of Contents:
Moral Mediators as Conflict Makers and Triggers for Structural ViolenceCollective Axiologies as Moral Niches, and the Derived Violent Conflicts; Building Violent Niches through Bullshit Mediators; Violence and the Right and the Duty to Information and Knowledge; Constructing Morality through Psychic Energy Mediators; Multiple Individual Moralities May Trigger Violence Engaging and Disengaging Morality; Multiple Individual'' Moralities; Pure Evil?; Fascist Morality and Happy Violence: ``The Fascist State of the Mind''; The Fascist Arguer and His Fallacious Dimensions
Description / Table of Contents:
The Perversity of ``Respecting People as Things''Religion, Morality, and Violence Faith, Violent Mediators, Overmoralization; Is Religion Violent? Faith and Its Pervertibility; Religion as a Natural Phenomenon; From Magical Thinking to Religion: Bubbles and Cognitive Firewalls; Sacred and Sacrifice: The Violent Boundaries of Magic; Overmorality and Wisdom: Morality or Indifference?; How Can Forgiveness Be Violent? The Ideal of Mercy and Its Discontents; Conclusion; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-642-21972-6
URL:
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