Violence
The Unrelenting Assault on Human Dignity
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Violence: The Unrelenting Assault on Human Dignity
Newspapers daily document the violence that
rends our times. Who can account for its
relentless pervasion? Why is it also found
fascinating or gripping? What is wrong with
societies that produce it?
Answers are elusive and fragile, renowned ethicist Huber believes. For, even apart from the gross brutalities of crime and war, he finds more subtle and covert violence in childrearing, family intimacy, schools, employee relations, entertainment, and competitive sports. Huber shows how the constant, everyday disregard of human dignity is a root of violence in all spheres, how the inviolability of dignity is the one absolutely necessary premise of countering violence, and how we can become personally vigilant in the service of human dignity. Huber's clear, sweeping creed articulates principles of a planetary ethos, a public theology for rebuilding personal and political culture rent by violence.
Answers are elusive and fragile, renowned ethicist Huber believes. For, even apart from the gross brutalities of crime and war, he finds more subtle and covert violence in childrearing, family intimacy, schools, employee relations, entertainment, and competitive sports. Huber shows how the constant, everyday disregard of human dignity is a root of violence in all spheres, how the inviolability of dignity is the one absolutely necessary premise of countering violence, and how we can become personally vigilant in the service of human dignity. Huber's clear, sweeping creed articulates principles of a planetary ethos, a public theology for rebuilding personal and political culture rent by violence.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800628581
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 176
- Publication Date July 29, 1996
Endorsements
"Violence is a work of extraordinary merit...Our world, in sum, is a public spectacle of brutish economics, military muscle, governments in servitude to mammon and its godlings. But...we do have ethicians of the quality of Wolfgang Huber. Their task is a saving one."
— Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
— Daniel Berrigan, S.J.
Table of Contents
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Foreword
- Violence and Intimacy as Entertainment
Human Dignity Needs the Media
Changes in the Public Structure
The Triumphal March of the Market Principle
The Media and the Taste for Violence
The Role of Ethics
Responsibility for One's Own Actions
Principles for a Universalist Ethic
Television and the Ban on Images
- Taking Liberties with Human Dignity: The Example of Sports
The Meaning of Sport
Principles of Sports
Effects of Social Change
Ethic of Dignity of Ethic of Interests
The Olympic Model or the Jesus Model
Achievement and Success
Sports and Value of Nature
Individuality and Sociability
- The Society of the Majority and the Minorities: Conditions of Living Together
Internal Diversity and External Boundaries
Majorities and Minorities
Multiculturalism
Acknowledging the Stranger and One's Own Identity
The Offer of Successful Multiculturalism
Coexistence in Cultural Diversity
- A Look Back at the Gulf War
May War Be God's Will?
Is There Such a Thing as Inevitable War?
Are There Worse Things than War?
What Is the Role of Religion?
Opposing Options in the Issue of War and Peace
The Gulf War and Religion's Loss od Credibility
- Military Violence after the Cold War
Ethical Principles of Peace
Peacekeeping Duties of the Community of Nations
Peacekeeping Missions
Combat Missions
The Balkan War and Military Intervention
Summary
- Violence against Humanity and Nature: The Necessity for a Planetary Ethos
Human Dignity in Antiquity and in the Christian Tradition
The New Turn toward Human Dignity
The Transition to Human Rights
Accessibility to Reasons and the Power to Bind
Ethics, Responsibility, Power
The Concept of Power
Minimizing Violence
Power and Violence
Planetary Ethos
"Project World Ethos"
Human Rights and Planetary Ethos
Ethical Dimensions of Human Rights
Third Generation of Human Rights
The Rights of Nature
Relative Universalism
Notes
Index
Preface to the American Edition
Introduction: Our Daily Violence
Form of Violence
Responsible Lifestyles
The Process of Clarification