Perpetrators and Social Death: A Cautionary Tale

被引：0
作者：
Tirrell, Lynne [1 ]
机构：
[1] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Philosophy, 100 Morrissey Blvd, Boston, MA 02125 USA
来源：
METAPHILOSOPHY | 2016年 / 47卷 / 4-5期
关键词：
evil; genocide; social death; moral luck;
D O I：
10.1111/meta.12220
中图分类号：
B [哲学、宗教];
学科分类号：
01 ; 0101 ;
摘要：
Understanding evil requires both addressing the grave wrongs done to the victim and addressing the perpetrator who does these wrongs. Claudia Card's concept of social vitality was developed to explain what genocidaires destroy in their victims. This essay brings that concept into conversation with perpetrator testimony, arguing that the genocidaires' desire for their own social vitality, achieved through their destruction of the social world of their targets, in fact boomerangs to corrode the vitality of their own lives. This is true whether they succeed or fail in their genocidal project. Card's recent analysis of being a badass is brought to bear on the cultivation of evil, and the essay suggests four strategies for meeting Card's moral challenge of avoiding evil responses to evil.
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页码：585 / 606
页数：22
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