Forgiveness and remembrance : remembering wrongdoing in personal and public life
Blustein, JeffreyAuthor
The theme of this book is the complex moral psychology of forgiving and remembering in both personal and political contexts. It presents an expanded emotive account of interpersonal forgiveness that challenges a number of entrenched ideas that pervade standard philosophical approaches to it, and uses this account to illuminate how forgiveness can advance the goals of transitional justice and political reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The theme of this book is the complex moral psychology of forgiving and remembering in both personal and political contexts. It presents an expanded emotive account of interpersonal forgiveness that challenges a number of entrenched ideas that pervade standard philosophical approaches to it, and uses this account to illuminate how forgiveness can advance the goals of transitional justice and political reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 23, 2014).
Forgiveness
Memory
Philosophy
Philosophy & Religion
Ethics