Not Far from the Kingdom Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness
In Anger and Forgiveness, Martha Nussbaum offers a magisterial brief against what she calls retribution and garden-variety anger. She does not write as a Christian, but there is much for a Christian ethicist to admire in her learned and creative treatment of moral emotion, including her defense...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2018]
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Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2018, Volume: 46, Issue: 4, Pages: 749-770 |
| Further subjects: | B
Anger
B Justice B Forgiveness B Book review B Love B Hatred B Retribution |
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| Summary: | In Anger and Forgiveness, Martha Nussbaum offers a magisterial brief against what she calls retribution and garden-variety anger. She does not write as a Christian, but there is much for a Christian ethicist to admire in her learned and creative treatment of moral emotion, including her defense of generosity. Professor Nussbaum is not far from the kingdom of God. I argue, nevertheless, that she blurs or erodes four important distinctions, between justice and love, anger and hatred, retribution and revenge, and utility and sanctity. The upshot is that her call for compassion degenerates into injustice. To justify this appraisal, I lay out Nussbaum's normative case, identify three major theoretical difficulties with that case, examine briefly the teachings of Socrates and Jesus in relation to revolutionary justice, then note an admitted complexity. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9795 |
| Reference: | Kritik in "You Deserve to Suffer for What You Did (2018)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religious ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/jore.12243 |