Forgiveness and love / Glen Pettigrove.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pettigrove, Glen, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgiveness.

Love.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 174 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is forgiveness? When is it appropriate? Is it to be earned or can it be freely given? Is it a passion we cannot control, or something we choose to do? Glen Pettigrove explores the relationship between forgiving, understanding, and loving.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Preface""; ""1. I forgive you""; ""1.1 Disclosing forgiveness""; ""1.2 Declarative forgiveness""; ""1.3 Commissive forgiving""; ""1.4 The forgiveness for which we hope""; ""2. The standing to forgive""; ""2.1 The debt-cancelling argument""; ""2.2 The emotion-based argument""; ""2.3 The relation-based argument""; ""2.4 Expanding the class of potential forgivers""; ""2.5 The norms of second- and third-party forgiveness""; ""2.6 Why it matters""; ""3. Forgiveness and character""; ""3.1 Blameworthy actions""; ""3.2 Blame without action""

""3.3 Wiping the slate clean""""3.4 Second- and third-party forgiveness revisited""; ""4. Understanding, excusing, forgiving""; ""4.1 Empathic understanding""; ""4.2 Forgiveness and misunderstanding""; ""4.3 Agreement and intelligibility""; ""4.4 Contexts and claims""; ""4.5 Narratives""; ""5. Forgiveness and love""; ""5.1 Love""; ""5.1.1 Love�s affective dimension""; ""5.1.2 Love�s cognitive dimension""; ""5.1.3 Love�s volitional dimension""; ""5.2 Forgiveness and love""; ""5.2.1 The cognitive dimension""; ""5.2.2 The volitional dimension""; ""5.2.3 The affective dimension""

""6. Unapologetic forgiveness""""6.1 Apologizing and being apologetic""; ""6.2 The possibility of forgiving the unapologetic""; ""6.3 Condonation and self-respect""; ""6.4 Punishment, apology, and forgiveness""; ""6.5 The consequences of forgiving the unapologetic""; ""7. Forgiveness and grace""; ""7.1 Grace""; ""7.2 The value of grace""; ""7.3 Forgiveness and merit""; ""8. Complications and conditions""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-874819-1

1-283-60964-9

9786613922090

0-19-165485-X

OCLC:

922971233