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100 1 Fiske, Alan Page,|d1947-|eauthor.
245 10 Virtuous violence :|bhurting and killing to create,
sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-
relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural
anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal
and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-
torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict,
rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital
punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing,
initiation, castration, fighting for status, contact
sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan
War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning /
|cAlan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; [with a foreword
by Steven Pinker].
264 1 Cambridge, United Kingdom :|bCambridge University Press,
|c2015.
300 xxvi, 357 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-342) and
index.
505 0 The point -- 1. Why are people violent? : What we mean by
"violence" ; Natural aversion to killing and hurting ;
What we mean by "moral" ; Conflicting moralities and post-
hoc justifications ; Pain and suffering are not
intrinsically evil ; Forerunners of virtuous violence
theory and how it goes beyond them ; Scope: What we are
and are not discussing ; Illegitimate, immoral violence --
2. Violence is morally motivated to regulate social
relationships : Fundamental ways of relating: the four
elementary relational models ; Cultural implementations of
universal models ; Constitutive phases ; Metarelational
models -- 3. Defense, punishment, and vengeance : Defense
and punishment ; Vengeance ; Metarelational retribution ;
Violence due to conflicting models -- 4. The right and
obligation of parents, police, kings, and gods to
violently enforce their authority : Corporal punishment of
children ; Violence in the military ; Violent policing ;
Violence by gods ; Explanations of accidents, misfortune,
and suffering ; Trial by ordeal and combat ;
Metarelational aspects of authority-ranking violence -- 5.
Contests of violence: fighting for respect and solidarity
: Knighthood in medieval Europe ; Gang and criminal
cultures ; Fighting among and alongside the gods ; Sports
; Fighting among youths ; Metarelational aspects of
fighting for respect and solidarity -- 6. Honor and shame
: Guest-host relationship ; Honor killing ; Honor violence
in the United States ; Honor among thieves ; How the
metarelational honor model organized the violence of the
Trojan War -- 7. War : The motives of leaders and nations
; The moral motives that move soldiers to go to war ;
Killing under orders ; Killing for your comrades ;
Extremist violence and terrorism -- 8. Violence to obey,
honor, and connect with the gods : Gods command violence ;
Sacrificing animals and humans to the gods ; Self-
sacrifice to the gods ; China ; American Indians ;
Christian monastic asceticism ; Christian and Muslim self-
flagellation ; Theoretical elaboration -- 9. On relational
morality: what are its boundaries, what guides it, and how
is it computed? : Defining the moral space ;
Distinguishing between moral and immoral relationship
regulation ; What are the cultural preos delimiting
violence? ; Going beyond the culturally prescribed limits
to violence ; Is morally motivated violence rational and
deliberative or emotional and impulsive? -- 10. The
prevailing wisdom : Are most killers sadists and
psychopaths? ; Are killers rational? ; Are killers
impulsive? ; Are killers mistaken? -- 11. Intimate partner
violence : Intimate partner violence is widespread ;
Intimate partner violence is morally motivated to regulate
relationships -- 12. Rape : Rape in war ; Gang rape -- 13.
Making them one with us: initiation, clitoridectomy,
infibulation, circumcision, and castration : Initiation
rites ; Circumcision and excision ; Eunuch opportunities -
- 14. Torture : Motives of leaders who order torture ;
Motives of torturers ; Motives of the public that approves
of the use of torture -- 15. Homicide: he had it coming :
How many homicides are morally motivated? ; Mass murder ;
Homicides committed by the mentally ill ; Metarelational
motives for homicide -- 16. Ethnic violence and genocide :
Violence against African-Americans in the US South ;
Genocide ; Null attitudes and dehumanization in the
perpetuation of mass violence -- 17. Self-harm and suicide
: Non-suicidal self-injury ; Suicide -- 18. Violent
bereavement : Why are people sometimes enraged by death? -
- 19. Non-bodily violence: robbery : Robbery for equality-
matching vengeance ; Robbery for authority-ranking status
-- 20. The specific form of violence for constituting each
relational model : Communal sharing violence: indexical
consubstantial assimilation ; Authority-ranking violence:
iconic physics of magnitudes and dimensions ; Equality-
matching violence: concrete ostensive operations ; Market-
pricing violence: arbitrary conventional symbolism -- 21.
Why do people use violence to constitute their social
relationships, rather than using some other medium? :
Criticality -- 22. Metarelational models that inhibit or
provide alternatives to violence -- 23. How do we end
violence? : Civil disobedience and hunger strikes ; Urban
gang homicide -- 24. Evolutionary, philosophical, legal,
psychological, and research implications : Evolution ;
Philosophy ; Law ; Psychology ; Research -- The dénouement
: What do we mean by "most" violence? ; The need for
general explanations.
520 "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 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."--Publisher information.
650 0 Violence.
650 0 Violence|xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 7 PSYCHOLOGY|xSocial Psychology.|2bisacsh
650 7 Violence.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01167224
650 7 Violence|xMoral and ethical aspects.|2fast
|0(OCoLC)fst01167234
650 12 Violence|xethics.
650 12 Violence|xethnology.
650 12 Violence|xhistory.
650 22 Psychology, Social.
700 1 Rai, Tage Shakti,|eauthor.
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