Holding Wrongdoers Responsible On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness.
| Author/creator | Blustein, Jeffrey |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021. |
| Description | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
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| Contents | Introduction: On the Complexities of Blame and ForgivenessPart I: Blame1.The Problem with Blame2.The Hostility Critique3.Varieties of Blame4. To Blame or Not to Blame?5. An Ethics of Blame6.Forgoing Blame7.Holding Responsible Without BlamePart I Conclusion: Taking StockPart II: Blame and Forgiveness8. Blame Before and After Forgiveness9.Is Blame Renounced by Forgiveness? Some Philosophical Accounts10.Forgiveness and the Purposes of Blame11.How Forgiveness Changes BlameConclusion: Withdrawing Good Will and Expressing Ill WillAppendix II: On the Moral Peril of Forgiveness in Eugene Oʻ́�9Neillʻ́�9s The Iceman ComethPart III: Forgiveness12. Praising and Debunking Forgiveness13.The Electivity of Forgiveness14.The Gratitude-Based Objection15.Aristotle, Kant and the Problem with Gratitude16.Nietzsche, Nussbaum and the Problem with Forgiveness17.An Alternative Moral Psychology of Gratitude and ForgivenessConclusion III: The Two Faces of ForgivenessAppendix II: On Blame and OptimismIndex |
| Abstract | Holding Wrongdoers Responsible contests a number of widely accepted claims about blame and forgiveness that are insufficiently examined in the philosophical literature, and their relationship to each other. These claims are: (i) Anger is the most fitting and appropriate kind of blame for those who are guilty of wrongdoing.(ii) Culpable wrongdoers should be blamed for what they have done.(iii) Forgiving consists of forswearing blame and blame feelings, especially angry ones.(iv) Forgiving is a kind and compassionate act for which a wrongdoer should be grateful. Against (i), the book argues that there are a number of reasons why we should be skeptical about the singular importance given to anger in this connection; against (ii), that blame is just one possible response to wrongdoing and, like other responses, has to be evaluated in relation to its purposes and the availability of alternatives; against (iii), that the continuation of blame after forgiveness is neither conceptually nor morally ruled out; and against (iv), that the image of forgiveness as benevolent and gift-like belies its dark side. By contesting these claims and their relationship with each other, the book reveals some of the moral and psychological complexities of these phenomena. |
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| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Biographical note | Jeffrey M. Blustein is Professor of Philosophy and Arthur Zitrin Professor of Bioethics, City College, City University of New York. His previously authored books include, The Moral Demands of Memory (2008) and Forgiveness and Remembrance: Remembering Wrongdoing in Personal and Public Life (2014). |
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| Issued in other form | Ebook version : 9781000523102 |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Blustein, Jeffrey. Holding Wrongdoers Responsible. First edition. [Place of publication not identified] : Routledge, 2021 1032139455 9781032139456 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021762620 |
| ISBN | 9781003231615 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1003231616 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 9781000523102 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| ISBN | 1000523101 (electronic bk. ; EPUB) |
| ISBN | 9781000523041 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| ISBN | 1000523047 (electronic bk. ; PDF) |
| Standard identifier# | 10.4324/9781003231615 |
| Stock number | 9781003231615 Taylor & Francis |
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