Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai.
Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-; Rai, Tage Shakti.
2015
HM1116 .F583 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai.
Author Fiske, Alan Page, 1947-
ISBN 9781107458918 paperback
1107458919 paperback
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language English
Description xxvi, 357 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number HM1116 .F583 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 303.6
Summary "What motivates violence? How can good and compassionate people hurt and kill others, or themselves? Why are people much more likely to kill or assault people they know well, rather than strangers? This ... book shows that people mostly commit violence because they genuinely feel that it is the morally right thing to do. In perpetrators' minds, violence may be the morally necessary and proper way to regulate social relationships according to cultural precepts, precedents and prototypes. These moral motivations apply equally to the violence of the heroes of the Iliad, to parents smacking their child, and many modern murders and everyday acts of violence. Virtuous Violence presents a wide-ranging exploration of violence across different cultures and historical eras, demonstrating how people feel obligated to violently create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships in order to make them right, according to morally motivated cultural ideals"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-342) and index.
Added Author Rai, Tage Shakti.
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The point
1. Why are people violent?
2. Violence is morally motivated to regulate social relationships
3. Defense, punishment, and vengeance
4. The right and obligation of parents, police, kings and gods to violently enforce their authority
5. Contests of violence: fighting for respect and solidarity
6. Honor and shame
7. War
8. Violence to obey, honor and connect with the gods
9. On relational morality: what are its boundaries, what guides it and how is it computed?
10. The prevailing wisdom
11. Intimate partner violence
12. Rape
13. Making them one with us: initiation, clitoridectomy, infibulation, circumcision and castration
14. Torture
15. Homicide: he had it coming
16. Ethnic violence and genocide
17. Self-harm and suicide
18. Violent bereavement
19. Non-bodily violence: robbery
20. The specific form of violence for constituting each relational model
21. Why do people use violence to constitute their social relationships, rather than using some other medium?
22. Metarelational models that inhibit or provide alternatives to violence
23. How do we end violence?
24. Evolutionary, philosophical, legal, psychological and research implications
The denouement.

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