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Nov 4, 2010 · ‘No justice, no peace’, threatens the bumper sticker and rally sign, raising in this popular form a serious question for contemporary political theory: What is the connection of violence and justice? Does injustice justify violence? Is violence, by its very nature, unjust?
- Violence for Justice | SpringerLink
Instead Chapter Six explored the issue of what makes...
- Violence for Justice | SpringerLink
Nov 1, 2019 · In exploring violence as a phenomenon, both state violence in the name of legality and non state violence in the name of justice, are still meaning laden and generating acts and actions of somatic harm. The idea of just non legal violence has been compelling in history and continues to be so.
- Jenny Pearce
- J.Pearce3@lse.ac.uk
- 2020
- As Self-Defense
- Violence and Just War
- Idealistic vs. Realistic Ethics
The most plausible justification of violence is when it is perpetrated in return of other violence. If a person punches you in the face and seems intentions to keep doing so, it may seem justified to try and respond to the physical violence. It is important to notice that violence may come in different forms, including psychological violence and v...
What we have just discussed at the level of individuals can be held also for the relationships between States. A State may be justified to respond violently to a violent attack – be it physical, psychological, or verbal violence to be at stake. Equally, according to some, it may be justifiable to respond with physical violence to some legal or inst...
The debate on the justification of violence is a great case in point setting apart what could be labeled as idealistic and realistic approaches to ethics. The idealist will insist that, no matter what, violence can never be justified: Humans should strive towards ideal conduct in which violence never figures, whether that conduct is attainable or n...
This chapter analyzes whether collective violence can be justifiable, whether violence might be the answer. To be sure, the adoption of violent tactics invites greater costs. There is a significant likelihood of being killed in an armed battle against the state, and research consistently shows that violent movements generate higher levels of ...
Instead Chapter Six explored the issue of what makes violence wrong, Chapter Seven asked whether an injustice is a type of violence, and Chapter Eight suggested how a theory of violence could facilitate our understanding of what makes an injustice both bad and wrong.
- Vittorio Bufacchi
- 2007
Underlying the substantial array of definitions of violence are two primary assumptions: (1) violence is motivated by hostility and the intent to cause harm and (2) violence is deviant—legally, socially, morally—from the mainstream of human activity (Jackman, 2002).
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Jan 1, 2007 · Violence and injustice are two major political problems facing the world today. Offering a fresh, innovative analysis of the concept of violence, this book presents an original insight into the...
