Making amends
Subtitle: atonement in morality, law, and politics
By: Linda Radzik.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780195373660
Subjects: Responsibility; Atonement; Reparation (Criminal justice); Restitution; Reconciliation; Restorative justice; Penance
Description: Can wrongs be righted? Or does the impossibility of changing the past mean that we remain permanently guilty? While atonement is usually considered a theological topic, this book uses the resources of secular moral philosophy to explore the possibility of correcting the wrongs we do to one another.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: An ethic for wrongdoers; title: Repaying moral debts : self-punishment and restitution; title: Changing one's heart, changing the past : repentance and moral transformation; title: Reforming relationships : the reconciliation theory of atonement; title: Forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and redemption; title: Making amends for crime : an evaluation of restorative justice; title: Collective atonement : making amends to the Magdalen penitents.