Forgiveness
Subtitle: a philosophical exploration
By: Charles L. Griswold, Jr.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780521878821; 9780521703512
Subjects: Forgiveness
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forgiveness : ancient and modern; title: Pardon, excuse, and forgiveness in ancient philosophy : the standpoint of perfection; title: Resentment and forgiveness : Bishop Butler's seminal analysis; title: Resentment; title: Forgiveness; title: - forgiveness at its best; title: Forgiveness, revenge, and resentment; title: Resentment and self-respect; title: On qualifying for forgiveness: changing your ways, contrition, and regret; title: On granting forgiveness: a change of heart, and seeing the offender in a new light; title: The conditions of forgiveness: objections and replies; title: Atonement, and the payment or dismissal of a debt; title: Forgiveness as a gift, and unconditional forgiveness; title: Praiseworthy conditional forgiveness; title: Moral monsters and shared humanity; title: Moral monsters; title: Shared humanity and fallibility, compassion, and pity; title: Sympathy; title: The unforgivable and the unforgiven; title: Forgiveness, narrative, and ideals; title: Forgiveness, reconciliation, and friendship; title: - imperfect forgiveness; title: Ideal and non-ideal forgiveness: an inclusive or exclusive relation?; title: Third party forgiveness; title: Unilateral forgiveness; title: Forgiving the dead; title: Forgiving the unrepentant; title: Self-forgiveness; title: For injuries to others; title: For injuries to oneself; title: For injuries one could not help inflicting; title: Forgiveness and moral luck; title: - political apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation; title: Apology and forgiveness writ large: questions and distinctions; title: Political apology among the one and many; title: Many to many apology: test cases; title: The university of alabama and the legacy of slavery; title: Apology, reparations, and the wartime internment of; title: Japanese-americans; title: Desmond tutu and south african churches; title: A "personal" apology : king hussein in israel; title: The united states senate and the victims of lynching; title: One to many apology: two failures; title: Robert McNamara's war and mea culpa; title: Richard Nixon's resignation and pardon; title: Traditional rituals of reconciliation: apology, forgiveness, or pardon?; title: Apology and the unforgivable; title: Apology, forgiveness, and civic reconciliation; title: A culture of apology and of forgiveness : risks and abuses; title: Political apology, narrative, and ideals; title: Truth, memory, and reconciliation without apology; title: The vietnam veterans memorial: an interpretation; title: Reconciliation without apology?