Forgiveness

Joram Haber, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Bergen Community College, is the editor of Doing and Being: Selected Readings in Moral Philosophy (Macmillan) and Absolutism and Its Consequentialist Critics (Rowman and Littlefield).

A detailed survey of various accounts of forgiveness, critically analyzing their central weaknesses. Finding them problematic, Haber develops his own account of forgiveness...an engaging alternative to other accounts. Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy Thought provoking, this excellent study concludes with a nine page bibliography which should prove invaluable for an ongoing discussion of forgiveness. Religious Studies Review This study will be highly useful to moral philosophers and to those dealing reflectively with moral problems in legal and other contexts. -- Virginia Held, City University of New York Haber's analysis is important not only in its own right, but it also opens up areas of further philosophical reflection. -- Martin P. Golding, from the foreword A thorough examination of the nature and value of forgiveness...This book stays close to its subject matter and moves within a tight focus. It is well written and thoroughly researched. CHOICE