1st Edition
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness
The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness brings into conversation research from multiple disciplines, offering readers a comprehensive guide to current forgiveness research. Its 42 chapters, newly commissioned from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars, are divided into five parts:
- Religious Traditions
- Historic Treatments
- The Nature of Forgiveness
- Normative Issues
- Empirical Findings
While the principal aim of the handbook is to provide a guide to the philosophical literature on forgiveness that, ideally, will inform the psychological sciences in developing more philosophically accurate measures and psychological treatments of forgiveness, the volume will be of interest to students and researchers with a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds, including philosophy, psychology, theology, religious studies, classics, history, politics, law, and education.
Introduction
Glen Pettigrove and Robert Enright
Section A: Background
Part I: Religious Traditions
1. The Jewish Journey from Atonement to Forgiveness
Charles Klein
2. Forgiveness from a Christian Perspective
Luis Tagle
3. Dilemmas of Divine Forgiveness and the Reflective Muslim
Zain Ali
4. Forgiveness in Hinduism
Roy Perrett
5. Forgiveness, Patience, and Confession in Buddhism
D.E. Osto
Part II: Historic Treatments
6. Forgiveness in Classical Greece: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Their Background Culture
Sophie-Grace Chappell
7. Stoic Forgiveness
Jeremy Reid
8. Forgiveness in Augustine and Aquinas
Adam Wood
9. Joseph Butler on Forgiveness
David McNaughton
10. Developing a Neo-Humean Account of Forgiveness: A Comparative Philosophical Approach
Rico Vitz
11. Hegel on Forgiveness
Chris Yeomans
12. Kierkegaard on Forgiveness
John Lippitt
13. Jung and Forgiveness
Robin Brown
14. Simone Weil: The Impossibility of Forgiveness and the Limits of the Human
Christopher Hamilton
15. The Gift of Forgiveness: Perspectives from the French Philosophical Tradition
Christina Gschwandtner
Section B: Current Research
Part III: The Nature of Forgiveness
16. Feeling Blame and Feeling Forgiveness
Lucy Allais
17. Forgiveness as a Volitional Commitment
Kate Norlock
18. Punishment-Forbearance Accounts of Forgiveness
Luke Russell
19. Performative Accounts of Forgiveness
Brandon Warmke
20. Normative Power Accounts of Forgiveness
Chris Bennett
21. Forgiveness and Agency
Jada Strabbing
22. Process Accounts of Forgiveness
Per-Erik Milam
23. Memory and the Scope of Personal Forgiveness
Crystal L’Hote
Part IV: Normative Issues
24. The Standing to Forgive
Linda Radzik
25. Forgiveness and Oppression
Macalester Bell
26. Forgiveness and Hope
Claudia Blöser
27. The Virtue of Forgiveness?
Glen Pettigrove
28. Forgiving God
Dan Speak
29. Collective Forgiveness
Katie Stockdale
30. Forgiveness in Politics
Trudy Govier
31. Forgiveness in Treatment: The Importance of Careful Definitions and Realistic Objectives
Everett Worthington and Sharon Lamb
32. Begging for Mercy: The Dangers and the Hopes of Forgiveness in Criminal Law
Nick Smith
Part V: Empirical Findings
33. The Measurement of Forgiveness
Suzanne Freedman
34. Forgiveness: Psychophysiological Side-Effects and Pathways to Health
Charlotte V.O. Witvliet, Alyssa C.D. Cheadle, and Lindsey M. Root Luna
35. The Development of Forgiveness
Etienne Mullet
36. Forgiveness with Couples and Families
Frederick DiBlasio
37. Examining Forgiveness and Trauma through Case Study Analyses
Jacqueline Song and Shih-Tseng Tina Huang
38. Self-Condemnation and Pathways to Self-Forgiveness
Lydia Woodyatt
39. Forgiveness and Religion/Spirituality: What Science Has Discovered about the Relationship between the Two
Jichan Kim
40. What Works in Forgiveness Therapy? Discussing Recent Meta-Analyses
Thomas Baskin
41. Intergroup Forgiveness
John Klatt and Robert Enright
42. Forgiveness Education: International Perspectives for Children and Youth
Jong-Hyo Park and Kalliopi Galiti
Biography
Glen Pettigrove is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow. He is the editor – with Christine Swanton – of Neglected Virtues (2022) and the author of Forgiveness and Love (2012).
Robert Enright holds the Aristotelian Professorship in Forgiveness Science within the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a licensed psychologist, and is co-founder of the International Forgiveness Institute. He is the author or editor of seven books including The Forgiving Life (2012), 8 Keys to Forgiveness (2015), Forgiveness Therapy (2015), and Forgiveness Is a Choice (2019).
