On repentance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID10691190
AutoresJustin A Capes (Flagler College, autor de correspondencia)
Año2025
Fecha de publicación2025-07-17
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqaf061
OpenAlexW4413082151
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas24

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