Real Forgiveness

Should you really forgive a perpetrator who remains unrepentant and is probably going to wrong you again? In Real Forgiveness, philosopher Luke Russell helps us to think more clearly about forgiveness, and to figure out how victims ought to respond to wrongdoing.

List of contents

• 1: Disagreeing About Forgiveness


• 2: The Philosophy of Forgiveness


• 3: A Philosophical Mess


• 4: Asking Too Much of Forgiveness


• 5: Prioritising the Moral Permissibility of Forgiveness


• 6: Prioritising the Unrestricted Availability of Forgiveness


• 7: Prioritising the Peaceful Functionality of Forgiveness


• 8: Epilogue: Is This Real Forgiveness?

About the author

Luke Russell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney. He works on various topics in moral philosophy, including evil, forgiveness, virtue, and vice. He is the author of Evil: A Philosophical Investigation (2014), Being Evil: A Philosophical Perspective (2020), and Evil: A Very Short Introduction (2022).

Summary

Should you really forgive a perpetrator who remains unrepentant and is probably going to wrong you again? In Real Forgiveness, philosopher Luke Russell helps us to think more clearly about forgiveness, and to figure out how victims ought to respond to wrongdoing.

Additional text

Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals; general readers.

Product details

• Authors: Russell, Associate Professor Luke (Associate Profe Russell, Luke Russell, Luke (Associate Professor in Philosophy Russell, Russell Luke
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9780198878476
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887847-6
• No. of pages: 204
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy