On repentance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10691190 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Justin A Capes (Flagler College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqaf061 |
| OpenAlex | W4413082151 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
Repentance is often mentioned in philosophical discussions of apology, forgiveness, and even criminal justice. Yet despite the importance that philosophers working on these topics sometimes attribute to repentance, they have had surprisingly little to say about it, typically only discussing it in passing. Here, I take the opposite approach, making repentance my central focus while leaving potentially related issues in the background. I criticize several existing accounts of repentance on the way to developing an account of my own. I conclude by situating the practice, as I understand it, within the larger process of atoning or making amends for wrongdoing
Confession (law) · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Forgiveness · Physics · Political science · Repentance · Sociology · Theology · Wrongdoing · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophy
An essay on moral responsibility
Making Amends
Living without Free Will
Responsibility and Atonement
Responsibility from the Margins
Free Will, Agency, and Meaning in Life
Two Faces of Responsibility
Repentance Rituals and Restorative Justice
On penance
The Physiognomy of Responsibility
Guilt and Suffering
Hard Determinism, Remorse, and Virtue Ethics
The Objective Attitude
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |