Moral Injury and the Promise of Virtue

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-32933-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 203 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 403 g

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wiinikka-Lydon, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. From Subjectivity to Moral Subjectivity.- 3. Moral Subjectivity and the Language of Virtue.- 4. Tensile Moral Subjects.- 5. The Domination of Void.- 6. Moral Subjectivity, Moral Injury.- 7. Conclusion. 

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon is a researcher at the European Union-funded Center for Ethics at the University of Pardubice.