The Duty of Violence

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ID11274944
AuthorsFrank Chouraqui (0000-0001-9665-1534, Leiden University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Publication date2021-11-10
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHuman Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0163-8548 • E-ISSN: 1572-851X
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s10746-021-09611-5
OpenAlexW3212815634
LanguageEN
References cited26

This essay argues that the deontological view of morality is connected to extreme and massive forms of violence through a kind of phenomenological necessity. In the first main section, I examine one family of such violence, which usually comes under the label of “religious violence”. I argue that it is not the religious element but the disqualification of context from the realm of justification which characterizes such violence. In the second main section, I examine the phenomenology of duty to conclude that duty, by definition, denies any normative relevance to context. In the third main section, I use this sketch of a phenomenology of duty to propose a hypothesis about the underpinnings of the connection between mass violence and duty, namely, that the notion of duty carries with it the exclusion of moderation, and places the agent before an impossible situation that can only be resolved by violence

Context (archaeology · Duty · Epistemology · Morality · Normative · Phenomenology (philosophy · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sketch · Sociology · Computer Science · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification

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