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Holding Wrongdoers Responsible : On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness - Jeffrey Blustein

Holding Wrongdoers Responsible

On the Complexities of Blame and Forgiveness

By: Jeffrey Blustein

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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:?

iAnger is the most fitting kind of blame for those who are guilty of wrongdoing.
iiCulpable wrongdoers should be blamed for what they have done.
iiiForgiving consists of renouncing blame and blame feelings, especially angry ones.
ivForgiving is a kind and compassionate act for which a wrongdoer should be grateful.?

Against (i), the book argues that there are a number of reasons why we should be skeptical about the singular importance given to anger in this connection; against (ii), that blame is just one possible response to wrongdoing and, like other responses, has to be evaluated in relation to its purposes and the available alternatives; against (iii), that the continuation of blame after forgiveness is neither conceptually nor morally ruled out; and against (iv), that the image of forgiveness as benevolent and gift-like belies its dark side. By contesting these claims, the book reveals some of the moral and psychological complexities of these phenomena.

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