Overview
- Discusses the role of morality in violence and of looting finance in facilitating violent outcomes
- Analyzes new violent structures threatening women and human creativity
- Is the second edition presenting an up-to-date philosophical and interdisciplinary theory of violence
Part of the book series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics (SAPERE, volume 69)
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This book offers a philosophical account of violence, engaged with both empirical and theoretical debates in disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, and theology. The primary thesis is that violence is 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 moralities. The author’s fundamental account of language, and in particular its normative aspects, is particularly insightful as regards extending the range of what is to be understood as violence beyond the domain of physical harm. By employing concepts such as “coalition enforcement”, “moral bubbles”, “cognitive niches”, “overmoralization”, and “military intelligence”, the book aims to spell out how perpetrators and victims of violence systematically disagree about the very nature of violence. The author’s original claim is that disagreement can be understood naturalistically, described by an account of morality informed by evolutionary perspectives as well. This book helps us come to terms with the fact that we are intrinsically “violent beings”. To acknowledge this condition, and our stupefying capacity to inflict harm, is a responsibility we must face up to: such understanding could ultimately be of help in order to achieve a safer ownership of our destinies, by individuating and reinforcing those cognitive firewalls that would prevent violence from always escalating and overflowing. This second edition is thoroughly revised and integrated with two new chapters to cover new aspects of violence and its understanding, such as the role of looting finance in facilitating violent outcomes and the attack to scientific cognition and human creativity.
Keywords
- Moral Mediators
- Violent Mediators
- Technological Mediators
- Exploitation of Women
- Cognitive Niches
- Philosophy of Violence
- Military Intelligence
- Moral Bubbles
- Commercialization of Science
- Decline of Human Creative Abduction
- Malicious use of AI
- Epistemic Irresponsibility
- Second Edition
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Violence
Book Subtitle: The Intertwining of Morality, Religion, Capitalism and Violence: A Philosophical Stance
Authors: Lorenzo Magnani
Series Title: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Berlin Heidelberg 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-68991-2Due: 22 July 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-68994-3Due: 22 July 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-68992-9Due: 22 July 2024
Series ISSN: 2192-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2192-6263
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 414
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations