The Philosophy of Forgiveness - Volume II

New Dimensions of Forgiveness

Court D. Lewis

• Publisher: Vernon Art and Science Inc.
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781622732586
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Volume II of Vernon Press’s series on the Philosophy of Forgiveness offers several challenging and provocative chapters that seek to push the conversation in new directions and dimensions. Volume I, Explorations of Forgiveness: Personal, Relational, and Religious, began the task of creating a consistent multi-dimensional account of forgiveness, and Volume II’s New Dimensions of Forgiveness continues this goal by presenting a set of chapters that delve into several deep conceptual and metaphysical features of forgiveness. New Dimensions of Forgiveness creates a theoretical framework for understanding the many nuanced features of forgiveness, namely, third-party forgiveness, forgiveness as an aesthetic process, the role of resentment in warranting forgiveness, the moral status of self-forgiveness, epistemic trust, forgiveness’s influence on the moral status of persons, forgiveness in time, the status of Substance and Subject within a Hegelian framework, Jacques Derrida’s “impossible” forgiveness, and the use of imaginative “magic” to become a maximal forgiver. Readers will be challenged to question and come to terms with many oft-overlooked, yet important philosophical dimensions of forgiveness.

The Philosophy of Forgiveness - Volume II New Dimensions of Forgiveness

Edited by

Court D. Lewis

Owensboro Community & Technical College

Authors

Mariano Crespo

Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, Universidad de Navarra

Elisabetta Bertolino

Private International Law, University of Palermo

Kathleen Poorman Dougherty

Mount Mary University

Joshua M. Hall

Emory University, Oxford College

A.G. Holdier

Colorado Technical University

Leonard Kahn

Loyola University New Orleans

Frederik Kaufman

Ithaca College

Jeff Lambert

Duquesne University

John McClellan

Carson-Newman University

Ryan Michael Murphy

Southwest Colorado Community College

Zachary Thomas Settle

Vanderbilt University

Adrian Switzer

University of Missouri Kansas City

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Table of Contents

Contributors

Introduction New Dimensions of Forgiveness

Court D. Lewis

Chapter 1 Third-Party Forgiveness

Leonard Kahn

Chapter 2 The Heart of the Matter: Forgiveness as
an Aesthetic Process

A.G. Holdier

Chapter 3 Forgiveness and Warranted Resentment

Frederik Kaufman

Chapter 4 Responsibility and Self-Forgiveness in
The Story of Lucy Gault

Kathleen Poorman Dougherty

Chapter 5 Forgiveness and Time: Attitudes,
Dispositions, and Philosophical Charity

Ryan Michael Murphy

Chapter 6 Betrayal, Forgiveness, and Trusting Again

John McClellan

Chapter 7 The Asymmetry of Forgiveness

Mariano Crespo

Chapter 8 Forgiveness, One’s Voice, and the Law

Elisabetta Bertolino

Chapter 9 Twixt Mages and Monsters:
Arendt on the Dark Art of Forgiveness

Joshua M. Hall

Chapter 10 Im/possible Forgiveness: Derrida on Cosmopolitan Hospitality

Adrian Switzer

Chapter 11 Indeterminable Forgiveness: Economic Madness and The Possibility of an Impossible Task

Zachary Thomas Settle

Chapter 12 Absolute Forgiveness: Material Intimacy
and Recognition in Hegel

Jeff Lambert

Index

Contributors

Mariano Crespo obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the Complutense University in Madrid (Spain). He has been Professor at the San Damaso University and at he Francisco de Vitoria University, both in Madrid. From 1995 to 2004 he was Assistant and then Associated Professor at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. From 2005 till 2013 he was Associated Professor at the Philosophy Department of Catholic University from Chile. Since 2013 he is Research Fellow of the Group “Emotional Culture and Identity” of the Institute Culture and Societ (ICS) of the University of Navarra. He has also been Visiting Scholar at the Husserl Archives of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and at the Phenomenology Research Center of the Southern Illinois University (USA). He is the author of the books Das Verzeihen. Eine philosophische Untersuchung (2002), El valor ético de la afectividad. Estudios de ética fenomenológica (2012) and with U. Ferrer, Die Person im Kontext von Moral und Sozialität. Studien zur frühen phänomenologischen Ethik (2016). He has also edited the fourth edition of Alexander Pfänder’s Logik and the volume Menschenwürde. Metaphysik und Ethik. He has published several papers on ontological, epistemological and ethical topics, most of them from a phenomenological standpoint.

Elisabetta Bertolino holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Law/Legal Theory from Birkbeck College—University of London. She has also completed other studies in Human Rights, English Common Law, and Philosophy and Literature. Her research focuses on one’s voice and its potentiality for resistance against constituted and sovereign forms of power. She has published in particular an interview with Adriana Cavarero (differences 2008) and is currently working on a book on one’s voice in relation to law and politics. Elisabetta currently teaches at DEMS - Interdisciplinary Department, University of Palermo, Italy.

Kathleen Poorman Dougherty has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Oklahoma. She has held numerous faculty positions, and currently serves as Dean of the School of Humanities, Social Sciences & Education at Mount Mary University. Her scholarly work focuses on the development of moral character, the role of self-knowledge in good character, and the role of personal relationships both for increasing self-knowledge and for fostering the development of good character. In addressing these issues she frequently considers literary texts hand in hand with traditional philosophical texts, because literature allows us the privilege of seeing not only the external life but also the internal life of a character.

Joshua M. Hall is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Emory University, Oxford College. His research focuses various historical and geographical lenses on philosophy's boundaries, particularly the intersection of aesthetics, psychology and social justice. This includes a critically-acclaimed coedited anthology (Philosophy Imprisoned), over two dozen peer-reviewed journal articles (including in Philosophy and Literature and Journal of Aesthetic Education), and eight anthology chapters (including Philosophical Perspectives on the Devil). His related work in the arts includes one chapbook collection and sixty-five individual poems in literary journals internationally (including multiple Pushcart Prize-winners Ibbetson St. Magazine, Main Street Rag, and Shampoo), as well as over twenty years’ experience as a dancer and choreographer.

A.G. Holdier is teacher and Program Director for Southern Idaho’s Minidoka Christian Education Association, as well as an ethics instructor for Colorado Technical University. His work on the intersection of aesthetics, ethics, and religion has been published in The Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, and volumes from publishers such as Lexington Press and Palgrave Macmillan. The development of his phronesis is still undergoing considerable emplotment.

Leonard Kahn is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Loyola University New Orleans. He is the editor of Mill on Justice (Palgrave 2012) and of John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty" (Broadview 2015). He is also the co-editor of Consequentialism and Environmental Ethics (Routledge 2013). He has published articles in Philosophical Studies, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, and Ethics, Policy, & Environment, as well as chapters in books published by Brill, Oxford University Press, Palgrave, and Routledge.

Frederik Kaufman is Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Ithaca College. He works primarily in moral philosophy and has published on war, death, animals, and environmental philosophy.

Jeff Lambert is a Ph.D. candidate at Duquesne University. His philosophical interests are primarily centered on Modern Philosophy (particularly late Leibniz) but he is also interested in Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy, and Critical Race Theory. His research is particularly focused on exploring and developing questions regarding the Philosophy of Intimacy. His dissertation investigates a form of intimacy within Leibniz’s system of monads, by examining Leibniz’s concept of the “vinculum substantiale.”

John McClellan is currently Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, TN. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2013 and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2004. His primary scholarly interests are in Philosophy of Religion.

Ryan Michael Murphy teaches philosophy at Southwe...

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