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

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Editors:
  1. Paula Satne

    1. School of Humanities, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK

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  2. Krisanna M. Scheiter

    1. Union College, Schenectady, USA

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  • First book to cover the ethics of revenge and forgiveness from historical and contemporary perspectives

  • Brings together new essays from top scholars weighing in on debates on the ethics of revenge and forgiveness

  • Emphasizes areas of disagreement among contemporary authors on the interpretation of key historical figures

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  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
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About this book

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.


Editors and Affiliations

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

    Paula Satne

  • Union College, Schenectady, USA

    Krisanna M. Scheiter

About the editors

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.



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment

  • Editors: Paula Satne, Krisanna M. Scheiter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77807-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77806-4Published: 06 May 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-77809-5Published: 06 May 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-77807-1Published: 05 May 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 327

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Ethics, Moral Philosophy, Political Philosophy

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