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

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Paula Satne, Krisanna M. Scheiter

   Pages 1-17

3. Anger, Revenge, and Punishment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Honor, Worth, and Justified Revenge in Aristotle

      • Krisanna M. Scheiter

      Pages 21-35

   3. Seneca on Anger, Revenge, and Punishment

      • Corinne Gartner

      Pages 37-58

   4. Spinoza on Hatred and Power and the Challenge of Reconciliation

      • Keith Green

      Pages 59-81

   5. Free Will Skepticism and Retributive Punishment

      • Whitley Kaufman

      Pages 83-99

   6. Punishment, Revenge, and the Nature of Moral Philosophy

      • Leo Zaibert

      Pages 101-117

4. Blame, Resentment, and Interpersonal Forgiveness

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119

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   2. Does Forgiveness Require Forswearing Resentment?

      • Brandon Warmke

      Pages 121-141

   3. Forgiving and Ceasing to Blame

      • Per-Erik Milam

      Pages 143-164

   4. The Dark Side of Forgiveness

      • Oliver Hallich

      Pages 165-187

   5. Why Aristotle’s Virtuous Agent Won’t Forgive: Aristotle on Sungnōmē, Praotēs, and Megalopsychia

      • Carissa Phillips-Garrett

      Pages 189-205

   6. Who Is Entitled to Forgive? A Study of ‘Third-Party’ and ‘Proxy’ Forgiveness

      • Geoffrey Scarre

      Pages 207-222

5. Political Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Punishment

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 223-223

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   2. Kant on Punishment, Pardon, and Forgiveness

      • Kate Moran, Jens Timmermann

      Pages 225-238

   3. An African Feminist Approach to Forgiveness: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Considered

      • Louise du Toit

      Pages 239-264

   4. Why Reconciliation Requires Punishment but Not Forgiveness

      • Thaddeus Metz

      Pages 265-281

   5. Political Apologies, Punishment, and Reconciliation Without Forgiveness

      • Bill Wringe

      Pages 283-299

   6. Remembrance Beyond Forgiveness

      • Paula Satne

      Pages 301-327Open Access

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.


Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

• Plato on Anger, Revenge, and Punishment
• Aristotle on Anger and Revenge
• Seneca on Anger and Revenge
• Early Judeo-Christian Views on Forgiveness and Punishment
• Spinoza on Forgiveness and Punishment
• Immanuel Kant on Retributive Justice
• Forgiveness and the Emotions
• Third Person Forgiveness and Proxy Forgiveness
• Unconditional Forgiveness
• Political Forgiveness
• Justice and Accountability
• Revenge and Punishment
• Political Conflicts and the Cycle of Revenge
• Non-Retributive Justification for Revenge
• Punishment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
• The Unforgivable
• Arendt and Political Forgiveness
• Unconditional Forgiveness
• Political Forgiveness, Justice and Accountability
• Punishment, Forgiveness and Reconciliation

• School of Humanities, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

  Paula Satne

• Union College, Schenectady, USA

  Krisanna M. Scheiter

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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