Making Amends: Atonement in Morality, Law, and Politics

by Linda Radzik

Book Overview

Can wrongs be righted? Can we make up for our misdeeds, 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.

Philosophers generally approach the problem of past wrongdoing from the point of view of either a judge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199767254
• ISBN13: 9780199767250
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"