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Rising Up and Rising Down is a wide-ranging study of the justifications for and consequences of violence. The seven-volume edition is divided between essays analyzing the actions and motivations of historical figures (including Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Robespierre, Cortés, Trotsky, Stalin, and Gandhi) and pieces of journalism and reportage that act as contemporary "case studies ...
In ethics, questions regarding the morality of violence ask under what conditions, if any, the use of violence can be morally justified. Three prominent views on the morality of violence are (1) the pacifist position, which states that violence is always immoral, and should never be used; (2) the utilitarian position, that means that violence can be used if it achieves a greater "good" for ...
The Encyclopedia of Ethics is a scholarly work with the original focus on ethical theory. [1] It is published by Routledge and includes "biographical articles, entries on areas and issues related to ethics, treatment of major traditions in religious ethics, coverage of applied ethical issues of importance to theory, survey articles on the history of ethics, and information on the current ...
Kimberly Hutchings is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London.. She is a leading scholar in international relations theory.She has extensively researched and published on international political theory in respect to Kantian and Hegelian philosophy, international and global ethics, Feminist theory and philosophy, and politics and violence.
Violence and Victims is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal covering theory, research, policy, and clinical practice in the area of interpersonal violence and victimization, touching diverse disciplines such as psychology, sociology, criminology, law, medicine, nursing, psychiatry, and social work.
The book was developed during his time at McGill University, influenced by scholars such as Wilfred Cantwell Smith and Stanley Brice Frost. [2] [3] He believed that reason was the primary basis for academic dialogue, which led him to affirm Islamic principles, and saw ethics as a suitable area for this discussion. [3]
As of February 2022, Kershnar has published 12 books: [17] Desert, Retribution and Torture (2001). Sex, Discrimination, and Violence: Surprising and Unpopular Results in Applied Ethics (2009). Desert and Virtue: A Theory of Intrinsic Value (2010). For Torture: A Rights-based Defence (2012). Justice for the Past (2012).
A few years later, Jones published her first book titled Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence, which won the New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology. [5] The book was an ethnographic study of violence within the inner-city of Philadelphia amongst adolescent girls. She focused on how the ...