Khushūnat dar Tārīkh-i Andīshah-yi Falsafī: Persian 1398

Action films, video games, criminal news stories, harassment, natural disasters, armed conflicts: violence runs through our societies right through. This obvious omnipresence should not, however, mask the complexity of a notion that is difficult to define, with tenuous borders with the ideas of force, power, and authority. Should we distinguish physical violence and moral violence? Does any bodily harm necessarily constitute violence? Can we put on the same level the violence exercised by a tyrant on his subjects and that of the revolution that will free them from it, in other words, is there constructive and just violence? By examining in turn its origins, its various manifestations, and its legitimacy, the thinkers who are interested in violence - ancient philosophers, theorists of natural law, anthropologists, and sociologists - question nothing less than bestiality and radical cruelty. of man, as well as the foundations of life in society.