The ontology and ethics of violence

<p>The aim of this chapter is to start laying the foundation for a comprehensive account of violence.</p><p>In order to build such an account I will start by examining the most minimal definition of</p><p>violence which I call the physicalist account1 and test it against some problematic or</p><p>ambiguous cases to see if it is solid enough to account for them. The following discussion will</p><p>show that if we aim for a coherent theory of violence we need to broaden the scope of and</p><p>complicate our explanation of the nature of violence.</p>