Conflict is ubiquitous and inevitable, but people generally dislike
it and try to prevent or avoid it as much as possible. So why do
clashes of right and wrong occur? And why are some more serious
than others? In Moral Time, sociologist Donald Black presents a new
theory of conflict that provides answers to these and many other
questions.
The heart of the theory is a completely new concept of social time.
Black claims that the root cause of conflict is the movement of
social time, including relational, vertical, and cultural
time--changes in intimacy, inequality, and diversity. The theory of
moral time reveals the causes of conflict in all human
relationships, from marital and other close relationships to those
between strangers, ethnic groups, and entire societies. Moreover,
the theory explains the origins and clash of right and wrong not
only in modern societies but across the world and across history,
from conflict concerning sexual behavior such as rape, adultery,
and homosexuality, to bad manners and dislike in everyday life,
theft and other crime, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism,
witchcraft accusations, warfare, heresy, obscenity, creativity, and
insanity. Black concludes by explaining the evolution of conflict
and morality across human history, from the tribal to the modern
age. He also provides surprising insights into the postmodern
emergence of the right to happiness and the expanding rights of
humans and non-humans across the world.
Moral Time offers an incisive, powerful, and radically new
understanding of human conflict--a fundamental and inescapable
feature of social life.
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