Can wrongs be righted, or does the impossibility of changing the past mean that we remain permanently guilty? While atonement is traditionally considered a theological topic, Making Amends uses the resources of secular moral philosophy to explore the possibility of correcting the wrongs we do to one another.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1: An Ethic for Wrongdoers
2: Repaying Moral Debts: Self-Punishment and Restitution
3: Changing One's Heart, Changing the Past: Repentance and Moral Transformation
4: Reforming Relationships: The Reconciliation Theory of Atonement
5: Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness and Redemption
6: Making Amends for Crime: An Evaluation of Restorative Justice
7: Collective Atonement: Making Amends to the Magdalen Penitents
Linda Radzik is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University
Pressestimmen
Radzik expertly and critically examines theories of atonement as moral transformation and as debt repayment Charles L. Grisworld, Times Literary Supplement Linda Radzik makes a valuable contribution to a small, but important and rapidly growing body of philosophy on the aftermath of wrongdoing ... highly engaging at the levels of both theorizing and moralizing, and I can hardly do justice to the range of ideas and questions Radzik raises. Adrienne M. Martin, Mind
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