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Living Nonviolently - Language for Resisting Violence (Hardcover)
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Living Nonviolently - Language for Resisting Violence (Hardcover)
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Are human beings naturally violent? Is war the fate of the human
race? Despite the depressing record of the past, the world's future
depends upon avoiding war and drastically reducing violence. Living
Nonviolently: Language for Resisting Violence examines carefully
the language of violence and war. One of the first casualties of
violence is language, which in turn makes resistance to violence
difficult to articulate. In the first four chapters, Gabriel Moran
proposes distinctions for the interconnected ideas of force, power,
aggressiveness, violence, and war not to invent a new and logical
language but to ground the meaning of these terms in our human
experience. That revitalization of ordinary language depends upon
an inclusive language of men and women, adults and children, human
and nonhuman animals. The fifth chapter locates the potential for
both encouraging violence and resisting violence in the peculiar
logic of religion. Jesus' Sermon on the Mount is commonly invoked
by people who say that nonviolence may be an admirable ideal for a
few people but it is irrelevant for most people and for all
nations; in this chapter, Moran examines the widely misunderstood
sermon in detail to illustrate its potential for resisting
violence. For a conclusion, he discusses practical means of
education that are helpful to reaching some understanding of
violence and resistance to violence. Living Nonviolently is written
for scholars in peace studies, political philosophy, or religious
studies and for anyone who wishes to understand the roots of
violence and war."
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