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 The Ambivalent Nature of Human Aggressiveness

    by:
  • Ecaterina Morar (University of Bucharest, Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, 9 Schitu Magureanu Street, District 1, Bucharest, Romania, E-mail: ecaterina_morar@yahoo.com)

The author analyses the theme of aggressiveness starting from the ascertainment that this phenomenon has been explored ever more often under the impact of the structural violence registered in the contemporary society. Stress is laid on the ethological study of aggressiveness, its moral consequences being mainly emphasized. The study argumentation reaches the idea in keeping with which aggressiveness should be considered as an entity, with two opposed and complementary faces: the force and vulnerability of the individual confronted with limit situations.

Keywords: human aggressiveness, structural violence, human vulnerability