Holding Wrongdoers Responsible: On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness

ISBN-13: 9781032139456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 254 str.

Jeffrey Blustein

Opis

Holding Wrongdoers Responsible contests a number of widely accepted, almost standard, claims about blame and forgiveness in the philosophical literature, and their relationship to each other.

Spis treści

Introduction: On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness  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  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  Part II Conclusion: Withdrawing Good Will and Expressing Ill Will  Appendix I: On the Moral Peril of Forgiveness in Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh  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  Part III Conclusion: The Two Faces of Forgiveness  Appendix II: On Blame and Optimism