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    STUDIA PHILOSOPHIA - Issue no. 3 / 2023  
         
  Article:   A SARTREAN TYPOLOGY OF VIOLENT AGENTS.

Authors:  CIPRIAN JELER.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  DOI: 10.24193/subbphil.2023.3.01
Available online 2023-12-27
pp. 7-19

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ABSTRACT. This paper provides a classification of violent agents according to the manner in which they relate to their own goals. By interpreting Jean-Paul Sartre’s discussion of violence in Notebooks for an Ethics, I show that violent agents may be classified into four categories that I call “defenders of the given order,” “instruments of a higher power,” “mineralized subjects” and, finally, “unchained subjects.” I also show how each of these four categories of violent subjects represents a particular manner of, in Sartre’s words, “refusing time” or, in other terms, of refusing to change or to adjust to the situation one finds oneself in.

Keywords: violence, typology, violent agent, Jean-Paul Sartre
 
         
     
         
         
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