TY - BOOK

T1 - Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair

T2 - A cross-cultural Comparison

A2 - Fischer, Saskia

A2 - Lotter, Maria-Sibylla

PY - 2022/1/4

Y1 - 2022/1/4

N2 - In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude — overcoming feelings of resentment and the desire for revenge — was always virtuous. Recently, however, this idea has been questioned. The contributors to this volume do not take sides for or against forgiveness but rather examine its meaning and function against the backdrop of a more complex understanding of moral repair in a variety of social, circumstantial, and cultural contexts. The book aims to gain a differentiated understanding of the European traditions regarding forgiveness, revenge, and moral repair that have shaped our moral intuitions today whilst also examining examples from other cultural contexts (Asia and Africa, in particular) to explore how different cultural traditions deal with the need for moral repair after wrongdoing.

AB - In current debates about coming to terms with individual and collective wrongdoing, the concept of forgiveness has played an important but controversial role. For a long time, the idea was widespread that a forgiving attitude — overcoming feelings of resentment and the desire for revenge — was always virtuous. Recently, however, this idea has been questioned. The contributors to this volume do not take sides for or against forgiveness but rather examine its meaning and function against the backdrop of a more complex understanding of moral repair in a variety of social, circumstantial, and cultural contexts. The book aims to gain a differentiated understanding of the European traditions regarding forgiveness, revenge, and moral repair that have shaped our moral intuitions today whilst also examining examples from other cultural contexts (Asia and Africa, in particular) to explore how different cultural traditions deal with the need for moral repair after wrongdoing.

KW - Apology

KW - Forgiveness

KW - Moral repair

KW - Reconciliation

KW - Reparations

KW - Responsibility

KW - Trans-cultural philosophy

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85152810968&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-84610-7

DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-84610-7

M3 - Anthology

SN - 978-3-030-84609-1

SN - 978-3-030-84612-1

BT - Guilt, Forgiveness, and Moral Repair

PB - Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.

CY - Cham

ER -