Joseph Butler on Forgiveness

A Presupposed Theory of Emotion

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4455755
AutoresPaul A Newberry (autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen62
Número2
Páginas233-244
Fecha de publicación2001-04-01
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jhi.2001.0016
OpenAlexW2004580218, W4232938408
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas5

In the recent philosophical literature on forgiveness, a topic of great concern is the proper characterization of forgiveness or, said in another way, the proper definition of forgiveness. Forgiveness has been defined in a multitude of ways: among others, as the overcoming of resentment, the overcoming of moral hatred, as a speech act, and as forbearance. Of these definitions the one that enjoys anything close to a kind of consensus is that forgiveness is the overcoming of resentment. This position, with various qualifications and stipulations, is held by numerous philosophers, among them R. S. Downie, Kathleen Dean Moore, A. C. Ewing, Martin Hughes, and Jeffrie Murphy. 1 The progenitor of this view is widely acknowledged to be Joseph Butler, who wrote sermons on both resentment and forgiveness nearly three hundred years ago. 2

Epistemology · Forbearance · Forgiveness · Hatred · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Resentment · Sociology · Theology · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification

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