Forgiveness and loyalty

Philosophy

Volumn 71, Issue 277, 1996, Pages 369-383

  Benn, Piers ^a  

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EID: 0040700398     PISSN: 00318191     EISSN: 1469817X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031819100041644     Document Type: Article

References (4)

1. See for example Joanna North, 'Wrongdoing and Forgiveness', Philosophy 62 (1987), 499-508
2. Jean Hampton, 'The Retributive idea', in Jeffrie G. Murphy and Jean Hampton, Forgiveness and Mercy (Cambridge University Press, 1987), 155
3. This is argued by John Wilson, 'Why Forgiveness Requires Repentance', Philosophy 63 (1988), 534-535
4. See T. M. Knox (ed.) Hegel's Philosophy of Right (Oxford University Press, 1976). Hegel takes the purpose of punishment to be the anulment of a wrong, by attacking the 'particular will' which is the living embodiment of that wrong. This interesting idea has some resonance in Hampton's defence of the idea that punishment is an affirmative act aimed at defeating the offender