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Moral injury and the promise of virtue
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- Book Synopsis
- This book turns to virtue language as an important resource for understanding moral injury, a form of subjectivity where one feels they can no longer strive to be good as a result of wartime experience. Drawing specifically on Iris Murdoch's moral philosophy, and examining the experiences of civilians during the Bosnian War (1992-5), Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon argues that current research into war and current understandings of subjectivity need new ways to articulate the moral dimension of being a subject if we are to understand how violence affects one's moral being and development. He develops an understanding of the human person as a tensile moral subject, one that forefronts the moral challenges and vulnerability inherent in lives affected by war. With these resources, Wiinikka-Lydon argues for a moral vocabulary and images of the human as a moral being that can better articulate the experience of violence and moral injury.
- About The Author
- Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon is a researcher at the European Union-funded Center for Ethics at the University of Pardubice.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9783030329365
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, (26 November 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 203
- Weight
- 268 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 x 12 mm
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