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Père Marquette theology lecture volume 1976
Pub. Date
1976.
Physical Description
57 pages 18cm
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English
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Description
xxvi, 357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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...
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Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Description
xii, 280 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
""Simone Weil and the Specter of Self-Perpetuating Force is a definitive contribution not only to Weil studies, but to any effort to understand the problem of violence and the sources of peace. The study seamlessly blends narratives of Weil's life and thought during the early twentieth century with those of people, political movements, and events pivoting on the world stage. E. Jane Doering helps to frame a plausible case for the optimism Weil forged...
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
xii, 167 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sex, Discrimination, and Violence is about how the systematic application of some basic principles of applied ethics yields some surprising and very unpopular results. In particular, Stephen Kershnar investigates three areas: sex, discrimination, and violence. In his discussion of sex, he concludes that adult-child sex is not always wrong and that it is not clear that watching rape pornography is bad for the viewer. When discussing discrimination,...
20) Vox populi: popular opinion and violence in the religious controversies of the fifth century A.D
Author
Pub. Date
[1979]
Physical Description
xii, 245 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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