Apologies and Moral Repair

This book argues that justice often governs apologies. Drawing on examples from literature, politics, and current events, Cohen presents a theory of apology as corrective offers.

Autorentext

Andrew I. Cohen is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jean Beer Blumenfeld Center for Ethics at Georgia State University. He is author of Philosophy, Ethics, Public Policy (Routledge, 2015). He has also edited or coedited books on public policy and applied ethics.

Inhalt

Introduction

1. Toward a Theory of Apology: Mapping Some Terrain of Corrective Justice

2. Some Incomplete Accounts of Apologies

3. Apology as Relationship Repair

4. Relationships and Mutually Justifiable Demands

5. Rights and Duties of Apology

6. Apologies, Corrective Justice, and Relationship Repair: Some Puzzles

7. Corporate Apologies

8. Political Apologies

9. Apologies for Historic Injustice