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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Forgiveness Ancient and Modern | |
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| Pardon, Excuse, and Forgiveness in Ancient Philosophy: The Standpoint of Perfection | |
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| Bishop Butler's Seminal Analysis | |
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| Resentment | |
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| Forgiveness | |
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| Forgiveness at Its Best | |
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| Forgiveness, Revenge, and Resentment | |
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| Resentment and Self-Respect | |
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| To Be Forgiven: Changing Your Ways, Contrition, and Regret | |
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| Forgiving: A Change of Heart, and Seeing the Offender and Oneself in a New Light | |
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| The Conditions of Forgiveness: Objections and Replies | |
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| Atonement and the Payment or Dismissal of a Debt | |
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| Forgiveness as a Gift and Unconditional Forgiveness | |
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| Praiseworthy Conditional Forgiveness | |
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| Moral Monsters, Shared Humanity, and Sympathy | |
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| Moral Monsters | |
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| Shared Humanity and Fallibility, Compassion, and Pity | |
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| Sympathy | |
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| The Unforgivable and the Unforgiven | |
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| Forgiveness, Narrative, and Ideals | |
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| Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Friendship | |
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| Imperfect Forgiveness | |
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| Ideal and Non-ideal Forgiveness: An Inclusive or Exclusive Relation? | |
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| Third-Party Forgiveness | |
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| Unilateral Forgiveness: The Dead and the Unrepentant | |
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| Forgiving the Dead | |
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| Forgiving the Unrepentant | |
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| Self-Forgiveness | |
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| For Injuries to Others | |
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| For Injuries to Oneself | |
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| For Injuries One Could Not Help Inflicting | |
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| Forgiveness and Moral Luck | |
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| Political Apology, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation | |
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| Apology and Forgiveness Writ Large: Questions and Distinctions | |
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| Political Apology among the One and Many | |
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| Many to Many Apology: Test Cases | |
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| The University of Alabama and the Legacy of Slavery | |
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| Apology, Reparations, and the Wartime Internment of Japanese-Americans | |
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| Desmond Tutu and South African Churches | |
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| King Hussein in Israel | |
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| The United States Senate and the Victims of Lynching | |
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| One to Many Apology: Two Failures | |
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| Robert McNamara's War and Mea Culpa | |
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| Richard Nixon's Resignation and Pardon | |
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| Traditional Rituals of Reconciliation: Apology, Forgiveness, or Pardon? | |
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| Apology and the Unforgivable | |
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| Apology, Forgiveness, and Civic Reconciliation | |
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| A Culture of Apology and of Forgiveness: Risks and Abuses | |
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| Political Apology, Narrative, and Ideals | |
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| Truth, Memory, and Civic Reconciliation without Apology | |
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| The Vietnam Veterans Memorial: An Interpretation | |
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| Reconciliation without Apology? | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |