The Ethics of Forgiveness - Couverture souple

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9780415754408: The Ethics of Forgiveness
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ISBN 10 : 0415754402 ISBN 13 : 9780415754408
Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

We are often pressed to forgive or in need of forgiveness: Wrongdoing is common. Even after a perpetrator has been taken to court and punished, forgiveness still has a role to play. How should a victim and a perpetrator relate to each other outside the courtroom, and how should others relate to them? Communicating about forgiveness is particularly urgent in cases of civil war and crimes against humanity inside a community where, if there were no forgiveness, the community would fall apart.

Forgiveness is governed by social and, in particular, by moral norms. Do those who ask to be forgiven have to fulfil certain conditions for being granted forgiveness? And what does the granting of forgiveness consist in? We may feel like refusing to forgive those perpetrators who have committed the most horrendous crimes. But is such a refusal justified even if they repent their crimes? Could there be a duty for the victim to forgive? Can forgiveness be granted by a third party? Under which conditions may we forgive ourselves?

The papers collected in the present volume address all these questions, exploring the practice of forgiveness and its normative constraints. Topics include the ancient Chinese and the Christian traditions of forgiveness, the impact of forgiveness on the moral dignity and self-respect of the victim, self-forgiveness, the narrative of forgiveness as well as the limits of forgiveness. Such limits may arise from the personal, historical, or political conditions of wrongdoing or from the emotional constraints of the victims.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christel Fricke is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo, Norway and the director of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature since 2007.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0415754402
ISBN 13 
9780415754408
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
220
Éditeur
Fricke Christel
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780415885430: The Ethics of Forgiveness

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ISBN 10 :  0415885434 ISBN 13 :  9780415885430
Editeur : Routledge, 2011
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