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Getting even : forgiveness and its limits / Jeffrie G. Murphy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murphy, Jeffrie G., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forgiveness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 138 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Forgiveness and its limits
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- In this short book, the author proposes that vindictive emotions (anger, resentment, and the desire for revenge) actually deserve a more legitimate place in our emotional, social, and legal lives than we currently recognize, while forgiveness deserves to be more selectively granted.
- Contents:
- Introduction: responding to evil
- What is forgiveness?
- Two cheers for vindictiveness
- Vindictiveness and the law
- Forgiveness as a virtue
- Repentence, punishment, and mercy
- Self-forgiveness
- Forgiveness in psychotherapy
- Forgiveness and Christianity
- Christianity and criminal punishment
- Concluding remarks.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780190288068
- 019028806X
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