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Forgiveness
Eve Garrard
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Description for Forgiveness
Paperback. Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture. This book offers an understanding of forgiveness allows us to avoid cheap and shallow forms of it, and enables us to see why it is right and admirable to forgive even unrepentant wrongdoers. Series: The Art of Living. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture: we are deluged with self-help books and television shows all delivering the same message, that forgiveness is good for everyone, and is always the right thing to do. But those who have suffered seriously at the hands of others often and rightly feel that this boosterism about forgiveness is glib and facile. Perhaps forgiveness is not always desirable, especially where the wrongdoing is terrible or the wrongdoer unrepentant. In this book, Garrard and McNaughton suggest that the whole debate suffers from a crippling lack of clarity about what forgiveness really ... Read more
Forgiveness usually gets a very good press in our culture: we are deluged with self-help books and television shows all delivering the same message, that forgiveness is good for everyone, and is always the right thing to do. But those who have suffered seriously at the hands of others often and rightly feel that this boosterism about forgiveness is glib and facile. Perhaps forgiveness is not always desirable, especially where the wrongdoing is terrible or the wrongdoer unrepentant. In this book, Garrard and McNaughton suggest that the whole debate suffers from a crippling lack of clarity about what forgiveness really ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Series
The Art of Living
Condition
New
Weight
189g
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Durham, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844652266
SKU
V9781844652266
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About Eve Garrard
Eve Garrard is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Keele. David McNaughton is Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University.
Reviews for Forgiveness
"The book is superbly written and moves at a brisk pace that keeps up interest and made me want to go on. I didn't need to read this book with a dictionary of philosophy to hand, or wonder what some of the words meant, or try to unravel the syntax of the sentences. The issues are laid out with admirable ... Read more