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Introduction
Satne, Paula Scheiter, Krisanna
Satne, Paula
Scheiter, Krisanna
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The editors of the volume, Krisanna Scheiter and Paula Satne, introduce some of the central themes in the book and briefly summarise the content of the different chapters. The chapters examine the merits and pitfalls of common reactive attitudes to wrongdoing, such as anger, hatred, resentment, and forgiveness, taking into account both historical perspectives and contemporary debates. The introduction explains some of the philosophical debates about the nature and the desirability of anger, and the alleged distinction between revenge and punishment (1.1). The introduction also surveys deep disagreements regarding the normativity of interpersonal forgiveness and indeed the very nature of forgiveness, blame, and resentment, which run through the different chapters of the book (1.2). The third section of the introduction (1.3) turns its attention to forgiveness, punishment, and reconciliation in the political sphere and the philosophical debates surrounding the nature and desirability of political forgiveness and its relation to the moral duty to remember after an atrocity, as well as the relationship between political reconciliation, apologies, and punishment. The volume offers cutting-edge scholarship on these issues and a new way to interpret and understand these concepts by important figures in the history of philosophy. The hope is that the different contributions in this volume will help the reader understand the philosophical issues that are at stake when we think about our responses to both interpersonal and political wrongdoing as well as the considerations that underpin conflicts and our attempts to resolve them.
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Satne, P. and Scheiter, K. (2022) Introduction, in Satne, P. and Scheiter, K. (eds.) Conflict and Resolution- The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge and Punishment. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77807-1_1
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This is an accepted manuscript of a chapter published by Springer in Satne, P. and Scheiter, K. (eds.) Conflict and Resolution – the Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge and Punishment, available online: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030778064
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