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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; Part I The Nature of Revenge ; 1 Revenge: What It Is and What It Isn't ; 2 A Little Natural History ; 2.1 Homo vindicans? ; 2.2 Human Adaptability and Common Values. |
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3 Interpretations of Harm, Norms of Personal Response 3.1 The Social Construction of Personal Harm ; 3.2 Personal Payback ; 3.3 Revenge as Duty, or as ''Only'' Emotional Response ; 4 Groups as Victims and Avengers ; 4.1 The Moral Status of Groups. |
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4.2 Collective Harm, Solidarity, and Identity 4.3 Can Groups Get Even? ; Part II The Morality of Revenge ; 5 Revenge, Punishment, and the State ; 5.1 Moral Choices and the Role of the Magistrate ; 5.2 State Violence, Personal Violence, and Social Control. |
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6 The Immorality of Revenge, Considering the Consequences 7 Some Nonconsequentialist Responses ; 7.1 Against Revenge, Regardless of Consequences ; 7.2 Trying and Failing to Defend Revenge ; 8 War and Vengeance ; 8.1 The Rancorous Imagination and Warmongering. |
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8.2 Moral Evaluation of War and the Rejection of Collective Revenge 9 Undermining Vengeance, Building Sustainable Peace ; 9.1 Downstream: Vindication without Vindictiveness ; 9.2 Upstream: No More Fear of ''Them, '' No More Anger at ''Them'' ; Bibliography ; Index. |
| Summary |
An in-depth philosophical study of the nature and immorality of revenge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Revenge.
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Revenge. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Social conflict.
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Social conflict. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Christensen, Kit Richard. Revenge and social conflict. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016 9781107174610 1107174619 (DLC) 2016016508 (OCoLC)946580013 |
| ISBN |
9781316799772 (electronic book) |
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1316799778 (electronic book) |
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9781316799680 (electronic book) |
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1316799689 (electronic book) |
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1316795977 |
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9781316795972 |
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9781316799505 |
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1316799506 |
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9781107174610 |
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9781316799680 |
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9781316795972 |
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1107174619 |
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