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The Concept of Violence (Paperback)
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The Concept of Violence (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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This study focuses on conceptual questions that arise when we
explore the fundamental aspects of violence. Mark Vorobej teases
apart what is meant by the term 'violence,' showing that it is a
surprisingly complex, unwieldy and highly contested concept. Rather
than attempting to develop a fixed definition of violence, Vorobej
explores the varied dimensions of the phenomenon of violence and
the questions they raise, addressing the criteria of harm, agency,
victimhood, instrumentality, and normativity. Vorobej uses this
multifaceted understanding of violence to engage with and
complicate existing approaches to the essential nature of violence:
first, Vorobej explores the liberal tradition that ties violence to
the intentional infliction of harm, and that grows out of a concern
for protecting individual liberty or autonomy. He goes on to
explore a more progressive tradition - one that is usually
associated with the political left - that ties violence to the bare
occurrence of harm, and that is more concerned with an equitable
promotion of human welfare than with the protection of individual
liberty. Finally, the book turns to a tradition that operates with
a more robust normative characterization of violence as a morally
flawed (or forbidden) response to the ontological fact of (human)
vulnerability. This nuanced and in-depth study of the nature of
violence will be especially relevant to researchers in applied
ethics, peace studies and political philosophy.
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