Moral Conflict

Moral Conflict
Author: W. Barnett Pearce
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1997-03-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780761900535

In an original synthesis of communication theory and their own research and experience as intervention agents, the authors of Moral Conflict describe a dialectical tension between the expression and suppression of conflict that can be transcended in ways that lead to personal growth and productive patterns of social action. Several projects are described as practical examples of these ways of working.

Conflicts of Law and Morality

Conflicts of Law and Morality
Author: Kent Greenawalt
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1989
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0195058240

Powerful emotion and pursuit of self-interest have many times led people to break the law with the belief that they are doing so with sound moral reasons. This study is a comprehensive philosophical and legal analysis of the gray area in which the foundations of law and morality clash. In examining the extent of the obligations owed by citizens to their government, Greenawalt concentrates on the possible existence of a single source of obligation that reaches all citizens and all laws.

Democracy and Moral Conflict

Democracy and Moral Conflict
Author: Robert B. Talisse
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0521513545

If confronted with a democratic result they regard as intolerable, should citizens revolt or pursue democratic means of social change?

The Morality of Conflict

The Morality of Conflict
Author: Samantha Besson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 622
Release: 2005-11-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847310184

This book explores the relationship between the law and pervasive and persistent reasonable disagreement about justice. It reveals the central moral function and creative force of reasonable disagreement in and about the law and shows why and how lawyers and legal philosophers should take reasonable conflict more seriously. Even though the law should be regarded as the primary mode of settlement of our moral conflicts,it can, and should, also be the object and the forum of further moral conflicts. There is more to the rule of law than convergence and determinacy and it is important therefore to question the importance of agreement in law and politics. By addressing in detail issues pertaining to the nature and sources of disagreement, its extent and significance, as well as the procedural, institutional and substantive responses to disagreement in the law and their legitimacy, this book suggests the value of a comprehensive approach to thinking about conflict, which until recently has been analysed in a compartmentalized way. It aims to provide a fully-fledged political morality of conflict by drawing on the analysis of topical jurisprudential questions in the new light of disagreement. Developing such a global theory of disagreement in the law should be read in the context of the broader effort of reconstructing a complete account of democratic law-making in pluralistic societies. The book will be of value not only to legal philosophers and constitutional theorists, but also to political and democratic theorists, as well as to all those interested in public decision-making in conditions of conflict.

Morality and Conflict

Morality and Conflict
Author: Stuart Hampshire
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 175
Release: 1983-01-01
Genre: Ethics
ISBN: 9780631133360

Bioethics and Armed Conflict

Bioethics and Armed Conflict
Author: Michael Gross
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2006-06-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 0262572265

An analysis of medical ethics during war and the inherent conflict between the principles of bioethics and the morally legitimate but competing demands of military necessity.

Moral Injury and Soldiers in Conflict

Moral Injury and Soldiers in Conflict
Author: Tine Molendijk
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000365077

This book advances an interdisciplinary understanding of moral injury by analyzing the stories of military veterans of combat and peace missions. In the past decade, the concept of moral injury has emerged to address the potential moral impact of deployment. This book contributes to an interdisciplinary conceptualization of moral injury while, at the same time, critically evaluating the concept’s premises and implications. It paints an urgent and compassionate picture of the moral impact of soldiers’ deployment experience and the role of political practices and public perceptions in moral injury. It does so by drawing on the experiences of close to a hundred Dutch veterans deployed to Bosnia (Srebrenica) and Afghanistan, and analyzing their stories from the perspectives of psychology, philosophy, theology and social sciences. Ultimately, this book advances the understanding of moral, political and societal dimensions of moral injury and contributes to practical efforts aimed at its prevention. This book will be of much interest to students of ethics and war, cultural anthropology, conflict studies and international relations.

The Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience

The Moral Conflict of Law and Neuroscience
Author: Peter A. Alces
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2018-01-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 022651353X

"New insights offered by neuroscience have provoked discussions of the nature of human agency and responsibility. Alces draws on neuroscience to explore the internal contradictions of legal doctrines, and consider what would be involved in constructing novel legal regimes based on emerging understandings of human capacities and characteristics not only in criminal law but in contract and tort law."--Provided by publisher.

Moral Time

Moral Time
Author: Donald Black
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-04-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0199831602

Conflict is ubiquitous and inevitable, but people generally dislike it and try to prevent or avoid it as much as possible. So why do clashes of right and wrong occur? And why are some more serious than others? In Moral Time, sociologist Donald Black presents a new theory of conflict that provides answers to these and many other questions. The heart of the theory is a completely new concept of social time. Black claims that the root cause of conflict is the movement of social time, including relational, vertical, and cultural time--changes in intimacy, inequality, and diversity. The theory of moral time reveals the causes of conflict in all human relationships, from marital and other close relationships to those between strangers, ethnic groups, and entire societies. Moreover, the theory explains the origins and clash of right and wrong not only in modern societies but across the world and across history, from conflict concerning sexual behavior such as rape, adultery, and homosexuality, to bad manners and dislike in everyday life, theft and other crime, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-Americanism, witchcraft accusations, warfare, heresy, obscenity, creativity, and insanity. Black concludes by explaining the evolution of conflict and morality across human history, from the tribal to the modern age. He also provides surprising insights into the postmodern emergence of the right to happiness and the expanding rights of humans and non-humans across the world. Moral Time offers an incisive, powerful, and radically new understanding of human conflict--a fundamental and inescapable feature of social life.

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity
Author: Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2016-11-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 110717645X

MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.