Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment

Given the current climate of political division and global conflict it is not surprising that there has been an increasing interest in how we ought to respond to perceived wrongdoing, both personal and political. In this volume, top scholars from around the world contribute all new original essays on the ethics of forgiveness, revenge, and punishment.
This book draws on both historical and contemporary debates in order to answer important questions about the nature of forgiveness, the power of apology, the relationship between punishment and revenge, the path to reconciliation, the morality of blame, and the role of forgiveness in political conflict.
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First book to cover the ethics of revenge and forgiveness from historical and contemporary perspectives Brings together new essays from top scholars weighing in on debates on the ethics of revenge and forgiveness Emphasizes areas of disagreement among contemporary authors on the interpretation of key historical figures

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Paula Satne is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wolverhampton. Her research engages in both theoretical and applied issues related to human evil, the ethics of forgiveness and, more recently, the ethics of memory, including related themes in political philosophy. Her recent research develops a Kantian approach to forgiveness, exploring the relationship between forgiveness, moral development, justice and self-respect. Her edited volumes include Kant's Doctrine of Right in the 21st Century (2018),and Construyendo la autonomía, la autoridad y la justicia. Leer a Kant con Onora O'Neill (2018). She is also guest editor of a Special Issue on Forgiveness and Conflict (Philosophia, 2016). Krisanna M. Scheiter is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Union College. She specializes in ancient Greek and Roman philosophy. She has written on Plato and Aristotle's accounts of emotion, desire, imagination, and thinking as well as Aristotle's account of anger and revenge. Recently she served as guest editor for a volume in Philosophia entitled Ethics of Forgiveness and Revenge. She received a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for her project on virtue and vengeance in Aristotle.

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HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS ON REVENGE AND FORGIVENESS.- Chapter 1. Plato on Anger, Revenge, and Punishment [Susan Suave Meyer (UPenn), Joshua Wilburn (Wayne State), Lewis Trelawny-Cassity (Antioch College)].- Chapter 2. Aristotle on Anger and Revenge [Stephen Leighton (Queens), Krisanna M. Scheiter (Union College), David Konstan (NYU)].- Chapter 3. Seneca on Anger and Revenge [Katja Vogt (Columbia), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley College)].- Chapter 4. Early Judeo-Christian Views on Forgiveness and Punishment [Jesse ouenhoven(Villanova), Micahel W. Rota (University of St. Thomas].- Chapter 5. Spinoza on Forgiveness and Punishment [Keith Green (East Tennessee State), Andre Santos Campos (New University of Lisbon)].- Chapter 6. Immanuel Kant on Retributive Justice [Kate Moran (Brandeis), Ernesto Garcia.- CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS ON FORGIVENESS.- Chapter 7. Forgiveness and the Emotions [Esther Meeks (Marquette)].- Chapter 8. Pluralistic Accounts of Forgiveness [Luke Russell (University of Sydney), Geoffrey Scarre (Durham)].- Chapter 9. Third Person Forgiveness and Proxy Forgiveness [Geoffrey Scarre (Durham)].- Chapter 10. Elective or Unconditional Forgiveness [Lucy Allais (UC San Diego), Glen Pettigrove (Glasgow), Eve Garrard (Manchester), David McNaughton (Florida State].- Chapter 11. Against Unconditional Forgiveness [Cristina Roadevin (The University of Sheffield)].- Chapter 12. Reasons to Forgive [Paula Satne (Manchester), Per Erik Milam (University of Gothenburg), Oliver Hallich (University Duisberg-Essen)].- Chapter 13. The Unforgivable [Oliver Hallich (University Duisberg-Essen)].- FORGIVENESS AND POLITICS.- Chapter 14. Political Forgiveness and the Emotional Model [Trudy Govier (University of Lethbridge), Amy Gutmann (UPenn), Dennis Thompson (Harvard)].- Chapter 15. Arendtian Accounts of Political Forgiveness [Monica Mookherjee (Keele University), Masa Mrovlje (The University of Edinburgh), Alice MacLachlan (York University)].- Chapter 16. Political Forgiveness, Justice and Accountability [Jeffrie Murphy (Arizona State University); Thomas Brudholm (Copenhagen); Colleen Murphy (Illinois)].- Chapter 17. Political Forgiveness and Memory [Jeffrey M. Blustein (The City College of New York)].- Chapter 18. Punishment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation [Bill Wringe (Bilkent University)].- Chapter 19. Group Forgiveness [Leonie Smith (Manchester), Thomas Smith (Manchester)].- REVENGE AND PUNISHMENT.- Chapter 20. Revenge and Punishment [Leo Zaibert (Union), Whitley Kaufman (UMass-Lowell), Jeffrie Murphy (Arizona State)].- Chapter 21. The Problem with Revenge [Nancy A. Stanlick (University of Central Florida), Suzanne Uniacke (Charles Sturt), Jon Elster (Columbia), Paul Hughes (Michigan-Dearborn)].- Chapter 22. Revenge, Punishment, and the Law [Michael Davis (IIT), Brian Rosebury (Central Lancashire), Michael Byron (Kent State)].- Chapter 23. Vengeance and Vigilante Justice [Tamler Sommers (Houston), Peter French (Arizona State)].- Chapter 24. Political Conflicts and the Cycle of Revenge [Nancy Sherman, David B. Hershenov, Dennis Klimchuk].- Chapter 25. Can there be a Non-Retributive Justification for Revenge? [Martha Nussbaum (Chicago), Krisanna Scheiter (Union)].

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HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS ON REVENGE AND FORGIVENESS.- Chapter 1. Plato on Anger, Revenge, and Punishment [Susan Suave Meyer (UPenn), Joshua Wilburn (Wayne State), Lewis Trelawny-Cassity (Antioch College)].- Chapter 2. Aristotle on Anger and Revenge [Stephen Leighton (Queens), Krisanna M. Scheiter (Union College), David Konstan (NYU)].- Chapter 3. Seneca on Anger and Revenge [Katja Vogt (Columbia), Nancy Sherman (Georgetown), Corinne Gartner (Wellesley College)].- Chapter 4. Early Judeo-Christian Views on Forgiveness and Punishment [Jesse ouenhoven(Villanova), Micahel W. Rota (University of St. Thomas].- Chapter 5. Spinoza on Forgiveness and Punishment [Keith Green (East Tennessee State), Andre Santos Campos (New University of Lisbon)].- Chapter 6. Immanuel Kant on Retributive Justice [Kate Moran (Brandeis), Ernesto Garcia.- CONTEMPORARY ACCOUNTS ON FORGIVENESS.- Chapter 7. Forgiveness and the Emotions [Esther Meeks (Marquette)].- Chapter 8. Pluralistic Accounts of Forgiveness [Luke Russell (University of Sydney), Geoffrey Scarre (Durham)].- Chapter 9. Third Person Forgiveness and Proxy Forgiveness [Geoffrey Scarre (Durham)].- Chapter 10. Elective or Unconditional Forgiveness [Lucy Allais (UC San Diego), Glen Pettigrove (Glasgow), Eve Garrard (Manchester), David McNaughton (Florida State].- Chapter 11. Against Unconditional Forgiveness [Cristina Roadevin (The University of Sheffield)].- Chapter 12. Reasons to Forgive [Paula Satne (Manchester), Per Erik Milam (University of Gothenburg), Oliver Hallich (University Duisberg-Essen)].- Chapter 13. The Unforgivable [Oliver Hallich (University Duisberg-Essen)].- FORGIVENESS AND POLITICS.- Chapter 14. Political Forgiveness and the Emotional Model [Trudy Govier (University of Lethbridge), Amy Gutmann (UPenn), Dennis Thompson (Harvard)].- Chapter 15. Arendtian Accounts of Political Forgiveness [Monica Mookherjee (Keele University), Masa Mrovlje (The University of Edinburgh), Alice MacLachlan (York University)].- Chapter 16. Political Forgiveness, Justice and Accountability [Jeffrie Murphy (Arizona State University); Thomas Brudholm (Copenhagen); Colleen Murphy (Illinois)].- Chapter 17. Political Forgiveness and Memory [Jeffrey M. Blustein (The City College of New York)].- Chapter 18. **Punishment…