What is acknowledgement and why is it important?

Dilemmas of Reconciliation: Cases and Concepts

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 65-89

  Govier, Trudy ^a  

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References (18)

1. Thomas Scheff, Bloody Revenge: Emotions, Nationalism, and War (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).
2. Joseph Montville in Michael Henderson, The Forgiveness Factor: Stories of Hope in a World of Conflict (New York: Penguin, 1996).
3. Michael Ignatieff, The Warrior's Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience (New York: Penguin, 1997).
4. Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and Mass Violence (Boston: Beacon Press, 1998).
5. Lawrence Weschler, A Miracle, a Universe: Setting Accounts with Torturers (New York: Penguin, 1990).
6. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Final Report, vol. 1, Looking Forward, Looking Back (Ottawa: Ministry of Supply and Services, 1996).
7. Herbert Fingarette, Self-Deception (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969).
8. Fingarette, Self-Deception, 71.
9. Herbert Fingarette, "Self-Deception Needs No Explaining," Philosophical Quarterly 48: 291.
10. As is pointed out by Robert Solomon, "Self, Deception, and Self-Deception in Philosophy," in Roger T. Ames and Wimal Dissanayake, eds., Self and Deception: A Cross-Cultural Philosophical Inquiry (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998), 91-122.
11. Annette Baier, "The Vital but Dangerous Art of Ignoring: Selective Attention and Self-Deception," also in Self and Deception, 53-72.
12. Baier, "The Vital but Dangerous Art of Ignoring," 55-56.
13. Often noted, but see in particular Timothy Garton Ash, The File: A Personal History (New York: Harper Collins, 1997), and his articles in The New York Review of Books, regarding South Africa ("True Confessions," July 17, 1997, and "The Truth about Dictatorship," February 19, 1998).
14. The notion of apology as an expression of moral acknowledgement is explored more fully in Trudy Govier and Wilhelm Verwoerd, "The Promise and Pitfalls of Apology," Journal of Social Philosophy (Spring 2002).
15. Trudy Govier and Wilhelm Verwoerd, "Taking Wrongs Seriously: A Qualified Defence of Public Apologies," Saskatchewan Law Review 65, 1 (Winter 2002): 139-62.
16. Jean Hampton in Jefferie G. Murphy and Jean Hampton, Forgiveness and Mercy (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 60.
17. Described in considerable detail in Yael Danieli, ed., International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma (New York: Plenum Press, 1998).
18. Compare Govier, Dilemmas of Trust (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988), chapters 5 and 6.