Moral Psychology of Forgiveness (eBook)

Kathryn J. Norlock (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
210 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield International (Verlag)
978-1-78660-139-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances, such as in criminal justice contexts, when the victim is dead or when bystanders disagree, and when anger and resentment seem preferable and important.

---

The feeling that one can't get over a moral wrong is challenging even in the best of circumstances. This volume considers challenges to forgiveness in the most difficult circumstances. It explores forgiveness in criminal justice contexts, under oppression, after genocide, when the victim is dead or when bystanders disagree, when many different negative reactions abound, and when anger and resentment seem preferable and important. The book gathers together a diverse assembly of authors with publication and expertise in forgiveness, while centering the work of new voices in the field and pursuing new lines of inquiry grounded in empirical literature. Some scholars consider how forgiveness influences and is influenced by our other mental states and emotions, while other authors explore the moral value of the emotions attendant upon forgiveness in particularly challenging contexts. Some authors critically assess and advance applications of the standard view of forgiveness predominant in Anglophone philosophy of forgiveness as the overcoming of resentment, while others offer rejections of basic aspects of the standard view, such as what sorts of feelings are compatible with forgiving. The book offers new directions for inquiry into forgiveness, and shows that the moral psychology of forgiveness continues to enjoy challenges to its theoretical structure and its practical possibilities.

Autor

lt;span>Kathryn J. Norlock is Professor of Philosophy and the Kenneth Mark Drain Chair in Ethics at Trent University. She is the author of Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective (2009) and co-editor of Evil, Political Violence, and Forgiveness (2009).

Inhalt

Introduction: The Challenges of Forgiveness in Context Kathryn J. Norlock / 1. Intersubjectivity and Embodiment: Exploring the Role of the Maternal in the Language of Forgiveness and Reconciliation Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela / 2.What Victims Say and How They Say it Matters: Effects of Victims’ Post-Transgression Responses and Form of Communication on Transgressors’ Apologies C. Ward Struthers, Joshua Guilfoyle, Careen Khoury, Elizabeth van Monsjou, Joni Sasaki, Curtis Phills, Rebecca Young, and Zdravko Marjanovic / 3. An Aristotelian Perspective on Forgiveness Education in Contentious World Regions Robert D. Enright and Mary Jacqueline Song / 4. Forgiveness, Exemplars, and the Oppressed Myisha Cherry / 5.Resentment, Punitiveness, and Forgiveness: Criminal Sanction and Civil Society, by Jonathan Jacobs / 6. Once More With Feeling: Defending the Goodwill Account of Forgiveness, David McNaughton and Eve Garrard / 7. Forgiveness and Reconciliation Barrett Emerick / 8. In Defense of Third-Party Forgiveness Alice MacLachlan / Notes on Contributors / Bibliography

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: Moral Psychology of the Emotions
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Schlagworte: ethics • Feminist philosophy • Moral Philosophyl • moral psychology • Philosophy of Race • Political Philosophy • Psychology • Social Philosophy
• ISBN-10: 1-78660-139-7 / 1786601397
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78660-139-1 / 9781786601391