Name: Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
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Author: Steven Pinker
ISBN: 9781107458918

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Type

Physical Book

Author

Alan Page Fiske

Tage Shakti Rai

Preface by

Steven Pinker

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

384

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.3 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781107458918

Synopsis "Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships"

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 provocative and radical 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 to 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.

Steven Pinker

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Steven Pinker es un psicólogo experimental que realiza investigaciones en cognición visual, psicolingüística y relaciones sociales. Es licenciado en McGill y tiene un doctorado en Harvard. Actualmente es Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology en Harvard y ha enseñado en Stanford y MIT. Ha ganado numerosos premios por investigaciones, enseñanza y sus libros. Es miembro electo de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias. Escribe con frecuencia en el New York Times y The Guardian.

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