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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 | |