A Sartrean Typology of Violent Agents

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 t...

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Main Author: Ciprian JELER
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Published: Babeș-Bolyai University 2023-12-01
Series:Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia
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Online Access:https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/6892
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description 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.
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spelling doaj-art-086190858cdc44d7ba61cf9b13c71df42025-08-20T03:34:13ZdeuBabeș-Bolyai UniversityStudia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia2065-94072023-12-0168310.24193/subbphil.2023.3.01A Sartrean Typology of Violent AgentsCiprian JELER0https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0541-9196Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania. Email: ciprianjeler@yahoo.com. 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. https://studia.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/subbphilosophia/article/view/6892violence, typology, violent agent, Jean-Paul Sartre
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A Sartrean Typology of Violent Agents
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violence, typology, violent agent, Jean-Paul Sartre
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