Fricker, M. (2019) Forgiveness - an ordered pluralism. Australasian Philosophical Review, 3 (3). pp. 241-260. ISSN 2474-0500
Abstract
There are two kinds of forgiveness that appear as radically different from one another: one presents forgiveness as essentially earned through remorseful apology; the other presents it as fundamentally non-earned—a gift. The first, which I label Moral Justice Forgiveness, adopts a stance of moral demand and conditionality; the second, which I label Gifted Forgiveness, adopts a stance of non-demand and un-conditionality. Each is real; yet how can two such different responses to wrongdoing be of one and the same kind? This paper explains how, by showing that the basic role each plays in moral-social life is the same; and that one is conceptually and therefore historically prior to the other. The result is pluralism, with each kind of forgiveness represented as distinctive in both its psychology and its normativity; and yet an ordered pluralism—with Moral Justice Forgiveness revealed as the root kind, and Gifted Forgiveness a culturally contingent iteration.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Australasian Association of Philosophy. This is an author-produced version of a paper subsequently published in Australasian Philosophical Review. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | forgiveness; conditional; unconditional; genealogy; State of Nature; pluralism |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > Department of Philosophy (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number LEVERHULME TRUST (THE) MRF-2013-079 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 30 Jul 2018 10:39 |
Last Modified: | 11 Sep 2022 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/24740500.2020.1859230 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:133947 |