Chapter published in:
Developing New Identities in Social Conflicts: Constructivist perspectivesEdited by Esperanza Morales-López and Alan Floyd
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 71] 2017
► pp. 68–82
Chapter 4. Understanding social conflict
Reason or emotion?
Historically social conflicts, and in general human conflicts, have been considered as domains of reasoning, treating their solutions in the context of searching for the best explanations from the point of view of the supposition of an objective reality. In this manner, we human beings have failed to resolve social conflicts; at best we have changed their form. In this paper, I will deal with conflicts from an epistemological standpoint, which is grounded in an understanding of the biological-cultural matrix of the human existence.
Keywords: reason, language, emotions, human beings, ethics, conversations, mutual respect, social conflicts
Published online: 26 July 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.71.04ram
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.71.04ram
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