... to recuperate: they need to recover both from harms that others have intentionally done them and from having done harm to others. Social recuperation is difficult because the tactics and standards of wartime seep into civilian and personal domestic life. In contemporary American life, the proliferation of armed...

...Jehangir Yezdi Malegam Oppositional constructions of peace and war and simplistic equations of peace with justice obscure the importance of activities primarily geared toward the limitation of harm. The medieval and patristic legacy of thinking with peace restricts peace to variants of a singular...

... principles one way or the other—in resisting despotism, however quietly, More did serious harm to his wife and daughter, to the European humanist movement, and to the cause of English Catholics. Duke University Press 2010 APOLOGY FOR QUIETISM A Sotto Voce Symposium Part 5 Jeffrey M. Perl...

... refugees into Algiers, thanks to intervention of the local qadi . The second concerns instructions given by the sixteenth-century Egyptian Sufi master al-Sha’rani to his disciples never to harm a dhimmi (that is, a Jew or Christian, especially one who is observant of his own religion). The third instance...

... justified by the improbability of a single vote deciding the result of an election. Part 1 deals not only with the psychology of voters but also with the harm that winning an election does to the psyche of the victor and to bodies and offices that are composed of winners. The essay concludes that democracy...

... a normative good; but that there are occasions when resort to force may be tragically necessary. What, then, makes a war justifiable? For Augustine, the most potent justification is to protect those in no position to defend themselves from certain harm. If one has compelling evidence that harm will come...

... tends to reveal our ignorance or mystification about their motives, to disavow our own contribution to the spiral of enmity, and to impede insight into the alternatives to annihilation. Evil belongs to the moral genus of undeserved harm.1 It is not uncommon to refer to any undeserved harm...

... This the truce. is analogous to, and anticipates, Achilles’ mur Menelaus by exposed for toinjury orhaving responsibility asense ofguilt with jans. First, there is the distress he feels at the harm done to his brother, combined Thus two reasons are given for Agamemnon’s violent disposition toward the Tro...

... Male- gam asked us to shift our attention from making peace, doing justice, and the conflict between them toward pursuit of an accomplishment that would obviate the need for either, namely, the prevention of harm.1 The reorientation he sug- gests...