TY  - BOOK
AU  - Halbertal,Moshe
TI  - On Sacrifice
SN  - 9780691152851
AV  - BL570 .H35 2017
U1  - 203.4 23
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Sacrifice
KW  - Self-sacrifice
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Christianity
KW  - God
KW  - Jewish life
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Paul Kahn
KW  - Western religious life
KW  - agent-relative actions
KW  - attentiveness
KW  - categorical imperative
KW  - charity
KW  - civilians
KW  - competition
KW  - cooperation
KW  - dependency
KW  - ethical life
KW  - ethics
KW  - evolutionary biology
KW  - exchange
KW  - general will
KW  - golden rule
KW  - heroic sacrifices
KW  - humans
KW  - individuals
KW  - instrumental relationship
KW  - laws of war
KW  - love
KW  - loyalty
KW  - martyr
KW  - modern state
KW  - moral sphere
KW  - original position
KW  - other
KW  - past sacrifice
KW  - political bond
KW  - political life
KW  - political order
KW  - political violence
KW  - politics
KW  - prayer
KW  - psychoanalysis
KW  - religion
KW  - religious life
KW  - reliigous communities
KW  - retroactive desecration
KW  - ritual
KW  - sacrifice
KW  - sacrificial community
KW  - sacrificial system
KW  - sacrificing for
KW  - self-interest
KW  - self-sacrifice
KW  - self-transcendence
KW  - self
KW  - social contract
KW  - soldiers
KW  - sovereign
KW  - state
KW  - suffering
KW  - temple worship
KW  - utilitarianism
KW  - violence
KW  - war
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; Part I. Sacrificing to --; Part II. Sacrificing for --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice, developing a theory of sacrifice as an offering and examining the relationship between sacrifice, ritual, violence, and love. On Sacrifice also looks at the place of self-sacrifice within ethical life and at the complex role of sacrifice as both a noble and destructive political ideal. In the religious domain, Halbertal argues, sacrifice is an offering, a gift given in the context of a hierarchical relationship. As such it is vulnerable to rejection, a trauma at the root of both ritual and violence. An offering is also an ambiguous gesture torn between a genuine expression of gratitude and love and an instrument of exchange, a tension that haunts the practice of sacrifice. In the moral and political domains, sacrifice is tied to the idea of self-transcendence, in which an individual sacrifices his or her self-interest for the sake of higher values and commitments. While self-sacrifice has great potential moral value, it can also be used to justify the most brutal acts. Halbertal attempts to unravel the relationship between self-sacrifice and violence, arguing that misguided self-sacrifice is far more problematic than exaggerated self-love. In his exploration of the positive and negative dimensions of self-sacrifice, Halbertal also addresses the role of past sacrifice in obligating future generations and in creating a bond for political associations, and considers the function of the modern state as a sacrificial community
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