Conceiving evil : a phenomenology of perpetration /

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Author / Creator:Hamblet, Wendy C., 1949-
Imprint:New York : Algora Publishing, 2014.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11276868
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ISBN:9781628940954
1628940956
9781628940930
162894093X
9781628940947
1628940948
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
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Summary:This book argues that the epistemological framework that permits us to see others as ''evil'' also resituates our own moral compass and reframes our moral world such that we can justify performing violent deeds, which we would readily demonize in others, as the heroics of eradicating evil. When conflict is understood positively as the confrontation of differences, an unavoidable and indeed desirable consequence of the rich tapestry of earthly life, then a discussion can open as to how to navigate the countless confrontations of difference in the most skillful way. Through this lens, violence c.
Other form:Print version: Hamblet, Wendy C., 1949- Conceiving evil 9781628940930