Real forgiveness / Luke Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Luke, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forgiveness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (203 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

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.

Contents:

Cover

Real Forgiveness

Copyrights

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Disagreeing About Forgiveness

1.1 Should You Forgive?

1.2 Eva Kor's Act of Forgiveness

1.3 Forgiveness, Big and Small

1.4 Dictionaries and Metaphors

1.5 Religious Views on Forgiveness

1.6 Psychologists' Views on Forgiveness

2: The Philosophy of Forgiveness

2.1 Forgiveness in the History of Western Philosophy

2.2 The Origins of Contemporary Philosophy of Forgiveness

2.3 Philosophical Common Ground: Forgiving vs Excusing vs Justifying

2.4 Defending the Three-WayDistinction

2.5 Philosophical Common Ground: Forgiving vs Pardoning vs Forgetting

2.6 The Common Ground

3: A Philosophical Mess

3.1 What Kind of Thing Is Forgiveness?

3.2 The Nature of Forgiveness

3.3 Which Negative Emotions and Attitudes Are Counteracted by Forgiveness?

3.4 Which Negative Behaviours Are Counteracted by Forgiveness?

3.5 What Is Forgiven? Who Forgives?

3.6 Is Forgiveness Morally Special?

3.7 Summary of the Disagreements

4: Asking Too Much of Forgiveness

4.1 Moral Disagreements or Merely Definitional Disagreements?

4.2 Is there a Single Correct Account of Forgiveness?

4.3 Three Pivotal Intuitions

4.4 Forgiving Is Permissible When Possible

4.5 The Unrestricted Availability of Forgiveness

4.6 The Peaceful Functionality of Forgiveness

4.7 Accepting All Three Pivotal Intuitions

4.8 The Dance

4.9 Biting the Trade-OffBullet

5: Prioritizing the Moral Permissibility of Forgiveness

5.1 The Earned Respite Conception of Forgiveness

5.2 The No Protest Conception of Forgiveness

5.3 Essentially Generous Forgiveness

5.4 Benevolent Unilateral Forgiveness

5.5 Virtuously Balanced Forgiveness

5.6 Why We Ought to Sacrifice Permissible When Possible.

6: Prioritizing the Unrestricted Availability of Forgiveness

6.1 Is Forgiveness a Voluntarily Chosen Action?

6.2 Forgiving as a Freely Available Performative

6.3 Two Versions of the Freely Available Performative Conception of Forgiveness

6.4 Pre-emptive Forgiveness and the 'Post Forgiveness Fact'

6.5 Mistargeted and Private Forgiveness Do Not Alter Norms

6.6 Some Communicated Forgiveness Does Not Alter Norms

6.7 What Happened to Peaceful Functionality?

6.8 Conjunctive, Disjunctive, and Paradigm-Centred Speech Act Accounts

7: Prioritizing the Peaceful Functionality of Forgiveness

7.1 Forgiveness and Being Cured

7.2 Forgiveness as the Peaceful End Point

7.3 How Stable is Forgiveness?

7.4 Forgiving as Getting to This Peaceful End Point

7.5 Expanding to Include More Instances of Forgiving

7.6 Mental Commitments and Expressed Commitments

7.7 The Moral Status of Forgiveness and Forgiving

7.8 Is There a Virtue of Forgiveness?

8: Epilogue: Is This Real Forgiveness?

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2023.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 1, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Russell, Luke Real Forgiveness

ISBN:

9780191988684

0191988685

9780198878483

0198878486