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Holding Wrongdoers Responsible - On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
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Holding Wrongdoers Responsible - On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness (Hardcover)
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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 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
renouncing 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
available 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, the
book reveals some of the moral and psychological complexities of
these phenomena.
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