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Revenge and social conflict
- Title
- Revenge and social conflict / Kit R. Christensen, Bemidji State University.
- Author
- Christensen, Kit Richard
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
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Details
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-12129
- ISBN
- 9781107174610
- 1107174619
- LCCN
- 2016016508
- OCLC
- 946580013
- Author
- Christensen, Kit Richard, author.
- Title
- Revenge and social conflict / Kit R. Christensen, Bemidji State University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- Description
- vii, 289 pages ; 24 cm
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Summary
- Revenge has been a subject of concern in most intellectual traditions throughout history, and even when social norms regard it as permissible or even obligatory, it is commonly recognised as being more counterproductive than beneficial. In this book, Kit Christensen explores this provocative issue, offering an in-depth account of both the nature of revenge and the causes and consequences of the desire for this kind of retaliatory violence. He then develops a version of eudaimonistic consequentialism to argue that vengeance is never morally justified, and applies this to cases of intergroup violence where the lust for revenge against a vilified 'Them' is easily incited and often exploited. His study will interest a wide range of readers in moral philosophy as well as social philosophers, legal theorists, and social/behavioural scientists.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-12129