Name: Virtuous Violence: Hurting and Killing to Create, Sustain, End, and Honor Social Relationships
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Author: Fiske, Alan Page ; Rai, Tage Shakti ; Pinker, Steven
ISBN: 9781107458918

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

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

22.6x15x2.3 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

(Preface by)

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Steven Pinker (Montreal, Canada, September 18, 1954) is one of the most influential psychologists, linguists, and science communicators internationally. With a PhD from Harvard and currently a professor at that university, his work has revolutionized the understanding of language, the mind, and human nature, advocating theories about linguistic instincts, the evolution of thought, and the power of reason. Among his most famous books are The Language Instinct (1994), How the Mind Works (1997, Pulitzer finalist), The Blank Slate (2002), The Better Angels of Our Nature (2011), Enlightenment Now (2018), and Rationality (2021), essential works addressing everything from the reduction of violence to the role of humanism and science in social progress.

Recognized for his rigor and clarity of exposition, Pinker has been included among the world's most influential thinkers by Time, Foreign Policy, and Prospect. He has received accolades such as the William James Book Prize (three times), the Los Angeles Times Science Book Prize, the George Miller Prize, the Humanist of the Year, and the Frontiers of Knowledge Award from the BBVA Foundation (2022). He was a Pulitzer finalist on two occasions and has received honorary doctorates in various countries. His work as a communicator and his defense of critical thinking and empirical evidence have established him as an essential voice for understanding the mind and human progress in the 21st century.

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