Isbn Anger and Forgiveness ( Resentment Generosity and Justice ) book English Paperback 336 pages

Name: Isbn Anger and Forgiveness ( Resentment Generosity and Justice ) book English Paperback 336 pages
Brand: ISBN
SKU: 9780199335879
Price: 17.45 GBP
Availability: InStock

Isbn Anger and Forgiveness ( Resentment Generosity and Justice ) book English Paperback 336 pages thumbnail

Price Alert

ISBN Anger and Forgiveness ( Resentment Generosity and Justice ). Book cover type: Paperback, Language version: English, Written by: Martha C. Nussbaum

★ 4.9

£17.45

Best price from hive.co.uk

Price Alert

ISBN Anger and Forgiveness ( Resentment Generosity and Justice ). Book cover type: Paperback, Language version: English, Written by: Martha C. Nussbaum

★ 4.9

£17.45

Best price from hive.co.uk

Price Alert

ISBN Anger and Forgiveness ( Resentment Generosity and Justice ). Book cover type: Paperback, Language version: English, Written by: Martha C. Nussbaum

★ 4.9

£17.45

Best price from hive.co.uk

hive.co.uk

£17.45

unknown

Price details

Lowest price for a new Isbn Anger and Forgiveness ( Resentment Generosity and Justice ) book English Paperback 336 pages is £17.45. This is currently the cheapest offer among 1 stores.

Product Information

We live in a culture of apology and forgiveness. But while there are a few thinkers who are critical of forgiveness as being too supine and extol the virtues of retribution and 'getting even' philosopher and intellectual Martha C. Nussbaum criticizes forgiveness from the other side: that in the realm of personal relations forgiveness is at its heart inquisitorial and disciplinary. In this volume based on her 2014 Locke Lectures Nussbaum paints a startling new portrait that strips the notion of forgiveness down to its Judeo-Christian roots where it was structured by the moral relationship between a score-keeping God and penitent self-abasing and erring mortals. The relationship between a wronged human and another is she says based on this primary God-human relationship. Nussbaum agrees with Nietzsche in seeing in forgiveness a displaced vindictiveness and a concealed resentment that are ungenerous and unhelpful in human relations. She says forgiveness can give aid and comfort to a certain narcissism of resentment that a loving and generous person should eschew-in favor of a generosity that gets ahead of forgiveness and prevents its procedural thoughts from taking place. With a wide range of literary and classical references as background Nussbaum pursues her penetrating and wide-ranging exploration of anger and forgiveness from the personal realm into the political as well as into a so-called middle realm where we interact with people and groups who are not our close friends or family. A great deal of resentment toward others is in this middle realm and she argues that the Stoics were right-we should try and understand how petty most slights are and avoid anger to begin with.