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Violence - ethics

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    Violence and aggression in the history of ideas / edited by Philip P. Wiener and John Fisher ; with an introduction by Philip P. Wiener.

    | Date: [1974]
    • Books

    Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships : the social-relational, moral motivational psychology, cultural anthropology and history of war, torture, genocide, animal and human sacrifice, obedience to gods, religious self-torture, homicide, robbery, intimate partner conflict, rape, suicide and self-harm, corporal and capital punishment, trial by ordeal and combat, policing, initiation, castration, fighting for status, contac sports and martial arts, honor, the Iliad and the Trojan War, injurious mortuary rites, and homicidal mourning / Alan Page Fiske and Tage Shakti Rai ; with a foreword by Steven Pinker.

    Fiske, Alan Page, 1947- | Date: 2015
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    The failures of ethics : confronting the Holocaust, genocide, and other mass atrocities / John K. Roth.

    Roth, John K. | Date: 2015
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