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LEADER: 03416cam a22003374a 4500
001 2007003936
003 DLC
005 20080201085347.0
008 070129s2007 nyu b 001 0 eng
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aBJ1476$b.G75 2007
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100 1 $aGriswold, Charles L.,$d1951-
245 10 $aForgiveness :$ba philosophical exploration /$cCharles L. Griswold.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2007.
300 $axxvi, 242 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index.
505 0 $aForgiveness ancient and modern -- Pardon, excuse, and forgiveness in ancient philosophy : the standpoint of perfection -- Bishop Butler's seminal analysis -- Resentment -- Forgiveness -- Forgiveness at its best -- Forgiveness, revenge, and resentment -- Resentment and self-respect -- To be forgiven: changing your ways, contrition, and regret -- Forgiving: a change of heart, and seeing the offender and onesdelf in a new light -- The conditions of forgiveness: objections and replies -- Atonement and the payment or dismissal of a debt -- Forgiveness as a gift and unconditional forgiveness -- Praiseworthy conditional forgiveness -- Moral monsters, shared humanity, and sympathy -- Moral monsters -- Shared humanity and fallibility, compassion, and pity -- Sympathy -- The unforgivable and the unforgiven -- Forgiveness, narrative, and ideals -- Forgiveness, reconciliation, and friendship -- Imperfect forgiveness -- Ideal and non-ideal forgiveness: an inclusive or exclusive relation? -- Third party forgiveness -- Unilateral forgiveness: the dead and the unrepentant -- Self-forgiveness -- For injuries to others -- For injuries to oneself -- For injuries one could not help inflicting -- Forgiveness and moral luck -- Political apology, forgiveness, and reconciliation -- Apology and forgiveness writ large: questions and distinctions -- Political apology among the one and many -- Many to many apology: test cases -- The University of Alabama and the legacy of slavery -- Apology, reparations, and the wartime internment of Japanese-Americans -- Desmond tutu and South African churches -- King Hussein in Israel -- The United States Senate and the victims of lynching -- One to many apology: two failures -- Robert McNamara's war and mea culpa -- Richard Nixon's resignation and pardon -- Traditional rituals of reconciliation: apology, forgiveness, or pardon? -- Apology and the unforgivable -- Apology, forgiveness, and civic reconciliation -- A culture of apology and of forgiveness : risks and abuses -- Political apology, narrative, and ideals -- Truth, memory, and civic reconciliation without apology -- The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: an interpretation -- Reconciliation without apology?
650 0 $aForgiveness.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip079/2007003936.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007003936-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0729/2007003936-d.html