Forgiveness and Retribution - Responding to Wrongdoing

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Holmgren is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University. She co-edited Ethical Theory: A Concise Anthology (2000) with Heimir Giersson. Klappentext Forgiveness and Retribution: Responding to Wrongdoing argues that, ultimately, forgiveness is always the appropriate response to wrongdoing. Zusammenfassung Forgiveness and Retribution: Responding to Wrongdoing argues that! ultimately! forgiveness is always the appropriate response to wrongdoing. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction and overview; 2. The nature of forgiveness and resentment; 3. The moral analysis of the attitudes of forgiveness and resentment defined; 4. The moral analysis of the attitudes of self-forgiveness and self-condemnation; 5. Philosophical underpinnings of the basic attitudes: forgiveness, resentment, and the nature of persons; 6. Moral theory: justice and desert; 7. The public response to wrongdoing; 8. Restorative justice: the public response to wrongdoing and the process of addressing the wrong.

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• Authors: Margaret R Holmgren, Margaret R. Holmgren, Margaret R. (Iowa State University) Holmgren, Holmgren Margaret R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.03.2012
• EAN: 9781107017962
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01796-2
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Jurisprudence & general issues, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law