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Holding Wrongdoers Responsible: On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness book cover

1st Edition

Holding Wrongdoers Responsible On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness

By Jeffrey Blustein Copyright 2022
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness

Part I: Blame

1. The Problem with Blame

2. The Hostility Critique

3. Varieties of Blame

4. To Blame or Not to Blame?

5. An Ethics of Blame

6. Forgoing Blame

7. Holding Responsible Without Blame

Part I Conclusion: Taking Stock

Part II: Blame and Forgiveness

8. Blame Before and After Forgiveness

9. Is Blame Renounced by Forgiveness? Some Philosophical Accounts

10. Forgiveness and the Purposes of Blame

11. How Forgiveness Changes Blame

Conclusion: Withdrawing Good Will and Expressing Ill Will

Appendix II: On the Moral Peril of Forgiveness in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh

Part III: Forgiveness

12. Praising and Debunking Forgiveness

13. The Electivity of Forgiveness

14. The Gratitude-Based Objection

15. Aristotle, Kant and the Problem with Gratitude

16. Nietzsche, Nussbaum and the Problem with Forgiveness

17. An Alternative Moral Psychology of Gratitude and Forgiveness

Conclusion III: The Two Faces of Forgiveness

Appendix II: On Blame and Optimism

Index

Biography

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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