Understanding Violence The Intertwining of Morality, Religion and Vi
This volume sets out to give a philosophical “applied” account of violence, engaging with both empirical and theoretical debates in other disciplines such as cognitive science, sociology, psychiatry, anthropology, political theory, evolutionary biology, a
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Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics,Volume 1 Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Lorenzo Magnani University of Pavia Department of Philosophy Piazza Botta 6 27100 Pavia Italy E-mail: [email protected]
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Lorenzo Magnani
Understanding Violence The Intertwining of Morality, Religion and Violence: A Philosophical Stance
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Lorenzo Magnani University of Pavia Department of Philosophy P.zza Botta 6 27100 Pavia Italy E-mail: [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-21971-9
e-ISBN 978-3-642-21972-6
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21972-6
ISSN 2192-6255
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To my wife Anna
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man’s nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. Francis Bacon, Of Empire
Preface
The explanation of the “genesis” of this book is simple. I have always directly seen, in the behavior of violent human beings and in my very own “mild” violent conducts, that they were basically performed on the basis of serious and firm moral convictions and deliberations, at different levels
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