Forgiveness - Couverture souple

Garrard, Eve

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844652262 ISBN 13 : 9781844652266

Editeur : Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture: we are deluged with self-help books and television shows all delivering the same message, that forgiveness is good for everyone, and is always the right thing to do. But those who have suffered seriously at the hands of others often and rightly feel that this boosterism about forgiveness is glib and facile. Perhaps forgiveness is not always desirable, especially where the wrongdoing is terrible or the wrongdoer unrepentant. In this book, Garrard and McNaughton suggest that the whole debate suffers from a crippling lack of clarity about what forgiveness really amounts to. They argue that it is more difficult, complex and troubling than many of its advocates suppose. Nevertheless, they conclude, a proper understanding of forgiveness allows us to avoid cheap and shallow forms of it, and enables us to see why it is right and admirable to forgive even unrepentant wrongdoers.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eve Garrard is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Keele. David McNaughton is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844652262
• ISBN 13: 9781844652266
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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