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Forgiveness and Moral Understanding

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Authors:
  1. Hugo Strandberg

    1. University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

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  • Develops an understanding of morality in the light of forgiveness

  • Focuses both on forgiving and on being forgiven

  • Argues that the challenging nature of forgiveness is of central importance to our understanding of forgiveness, in particular, and of morality, in general

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 1-21

  3. Being True to Oneself, Being Forgiven

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 23-46

  4. Plurality

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 47-69

  5. Reason

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 71-107

  6. Conditions

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 109-139

  7. Virtue

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 141-160

  8. Death

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 161-177

  9. While He Was Still Far off

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 179-206

  10. Forgiveness and Morality

    • Hugo Strandberg
    Pages 207-224

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 225-240
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About this book

This book sets out to deepen our moral understanding by thinking about forgiveness: what does it mean for our understanding of morality that there is such a thing as forgiveness? Forgiveness is a challenge to moral philosophy, for forgiveness challenges us: it calls me to understand my relations to others, and thereby myself, in a new way. Without arguing for or against forgiveness, the present study tries to describe these challenges. These challenges concern both forgiving and asking for forgiveness. The latter is especially important in this context: what does the need to be forgiven mean? In the light of such questions, central issues in the philosophy of forgiveness are critically discussed, about the reasons and conditions for forgiveness, but mostly the focus is on new questions, about the relation of forgiveness to plurality, virtue, death, the processes of moral change and development, and the possibility of feeling at home in the world.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Pardubice, Pardubice, Czech Republic

    Hugo Strandberg

About the author

Hugo Strandberg is Associate Professor in Philosophy at Åbo Akademi University, Finland, and Researcher at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic. He is the author of several monographs, including Self-Knowledge and Self-Deception (2015).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Forgiveness and Moral Understanding

  • Authors: Hugo Strandberg

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73174-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73173-1Published: 22 May 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-73176-2Published: 23 May 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-73174-8Published: 21 May 2021

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 240

  • Topics: Ethics

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