Margaret R. Holmgren

Forgiveness and Retribution

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Produktbeschreibung

Forgiveness and Retribution: Responding to Wrongdoing argues that, ultimately, forgiveness is always the appropriate response to wrongdoing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 656g
• ISBN-13: 9781107017962
• ISBN-10: 1107017963
• Artikelnr.: 34749635

Autorenporträt

Margaret Holmgren is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. She co-edited Ethical Theory: A Concise Anthology (2000) with Heimir Giersson.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview
2. The nature of forgiveness and resentment
3. The moral analysis of the attitudes of forgiveness and resentment defined
4. The moral analysis of the attitudes of self-forgiveness and self-condemnation
5. Philosophical underpinnings of the basic attitudes: forgiveness, resentment, and the nature of persons
6. Moral theory: justice and desert
7. The public response to wrongdoing
8. Restorative justice: the public response to wrongdoing and the process of addressing the wrong.