CIVILIZED OPPRESSION AND MORAL RELATIONS by Antonio Calcagno (Editor), Jean Harvey ( 9781137498069 )

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CIVILIZED OPPRESSION AND MORAL RELATIONS
VICTIMS, FALLIBILITY AND THE MORAL COMMUNITY

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1137498064

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9781137498069

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

9 April, 2015

Pages:

208

Description:

This book discusses how civilized oppression (the oppression that involves neither violence nor the law) can be overcome by re-examining our participation in it. Moral community, solidarity and education are offered as vibrant strategies to overcome the hurt and marginalization that stem from civilized oppression.

Synopsis:

There are significant differences between civilized oppression and violent oppression and these differences show not only in the phenomena involved, but also in the nature of those who actively contribute to the two phenomena ('contributing agents'). Fair characterizations of the agents of civilized oppression often require very different descriptions from those applying to violent oppressors. Many of the failings behind civilized oppression are shared by both the contributing agents and a large number of the victims. Often it is the privileged social position of the agents that allows those failings to have such a serious impact, whereas the same failings in the victims may be fairly innocuous (though they are not always). This book is alert to this and other differences between civilized and violent oppression. Jean Harvey examines what the moral relations should be between the key players in civilized oppression: the agents, victims, and 'bystanders'.

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