TY - BOOK ID - 85645346 TI - Virtuous violence : hurting and killing to create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships AU - Fiske, Alan Page AU - Rai, Tage Shakti PY - 2015 SN - 1316190064 1316104664 1107088208 1107458919 9781107458918 1316191893 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Violence. KW - Violence KW - Violent behavior KW - Social psychology KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Moral and religious aspects KW - Violence - Moral and ethical aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85645346 AB - 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 according to cultural precepts, precedents, and prototypes. These moral motivations apply equally to the violence of the heroes of the Iliad, to parents smacking their child, and to many modern murders and everyday acts of violence. Virtuous Violence presents a wide-ranging exploration of violence across different cultures and historical eras, demonstrating how people feel obligated to violently create, sustain, end, and honor social relationships in order to make them right, according to morally motivated cultural ideals. ER -