Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth
Seiten
2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5291-9 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5291-9 (ISBN)
Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth explores commonly perceived limitations to living nonviolently. Centering nonviolence as a sacrosanct ideal and calling for a radical reconceptualization of how violence is understood, Sanjay Lal shows that the value of a nonviolent approach to ethics has been needlessly under-emphasized.
Given the ubiquity of violence in our world, the ever present call to renounce violence has the understandable tendency to ring hollow to many of us. There is no shortage of evidence showing that we really don’t oppose violence as much as we claim to. By conceptually analyzing the terms “violence” and “nonviolence,” as well as by offering palpable readings of Gandhi’s thought and discussing how we can better identify with others, Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth offers insight into how we can begin reducing the gap between our professed reverence for nonviolence and our everyday practices. Sanjay Lal argues that neither our inability to perfectly uphold nonviolent practice nor the reality that moral worth is often exhibited through acts of violence should be an obstacle to affirming the value of a more comprehensive ethic of nonviolence. Peace theorists, activists, and anyone interested in a less violence-filled existence will find much to take away from this work.
Given the ubiquity of violence in our world, the ever present call to renounce violence has the understandable tendency to ring hollow to many of us. There is no shortage of evidence showing that we really don’t oppose violence as much as we claim to. By conceptually analyzing the terms “violence” and “nonviolence,” as well as by offering palpable readings of Gandhi’s thought and discussing how we can better identify with others, Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth offers insight into how we can begin reducing the gap between our professed reverence for nonviolence and our everyday practices. Sanjay Lal argues that neither our inability to perfectly uphold nonviolent practice nor the reality that moral worth is often exhibited through acts of violence should be an obstacle to affirming the value of a more comprehensive ethic of nonviolence. Peace theorists, activists, and anyone interested in a less violence-filled existence will find much to take away from this work.
Sanjay Lal is senior lecturer of philosophy at Clayton State University.
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 Some Preliminary Considerations
2 Philosophical Implications of Gandhi’s Qualified
3 Admiring Zelensky While Affirming Nonviolence
4 Re-Conceptualizing Appearances as a Means for Creating a More Nonviolent World
5 Actualizing the Potential—Reflections on How to Develop a More Nonviolenct Nature
6 A Closing Summary
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 158 x 237 mm |
| Gewicht | 372 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-6669-5291-5 / 1666952915 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-5291-9 / 9781666952919 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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