Overview
- First book to cover the ethics of revenge and forgiveness from historical and contemporary perspectives
- Brings together new essays from top scholars weighing in on debates on the ethics of revenge and forgiveness
- Emphasizes areas of disagreement among contemporary authors on the interpretation of key historical figures
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This book draws on both historical and contemporary debates in order to answer important questions about the nature of forgiveness, the power of apology, the relationship between punishment and revenge, the path to reconciliation, the morality of blame, and the role of forgiveness in political conflict.
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Keywords
- Plato on Anger, Revenge, and Punishment
- Aristotle on Anger and Revenge
- Seneca on Anger and Revenge
- Early Judeo-Christian Views on Forgiveness and Punishment
- Spinoza on Forgiveness and Punishment
- Immanuel Kant on Retributive Justice
- Forgiveness and the Emotions
- Third Person Forgiveness and Proxy Forgiveness
- Unconditional Forgiveness
- Political Forgiveness
- Justice and Accountability
- Revenge and Punishment
- Political Conflicts and the Cycle of Revenge
- Non-Retributive Justification for Revenge
- Punishment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- The Unforgivable
- Arendt and Political Forgiveness
- Unconditional Forgiveness
- Political Forgiveness, Justice and Accountability
- Punishment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Anger, Revenge, and Punishment
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Blame, Resentment, and Interpersonal Forgiveness
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Political Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Punishment
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Krisanna M. Scheiter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Union College. She specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. She has written on Plato and Aristotle’s accounts of emotion, desire, imagination, and thinking as well as Aristotle’s account of anger and revenge. Recently she served as guest editor for a volume in Philosophia entitled Ethics of Forgiveness and Revenge. She received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for her project on virtue and vengeance in Aristotle.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment
Editors: Paula Satne, Krisanna M. Scheiter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77807-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77806-4Published: 06 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77809-5Published: 06 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77807-1Published: 05 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 327
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy