Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1 What Is Moral Repair?......Page 15
Moral Repair......Page 37
Communal Responsibilities for Repair......Page 43
Limits of Moral Repair......Page 48
2 Hope’s Value......Page 54
What Is Hoping Like?......Page 58
What Good Is Hoping?......Page 63
Losing Hope, Killing Hope......Page 73
Hope, Trust, and Our Moral Understandings......Page 79
3 Damages to Trust......Page 86
Trust: Motive and Focus......Page 88
Default Trust......Page 97
Violations of Trust......Page 102
Distortions of Responsibility and Objectionable Attitudes......Page 112
Abandonment or Assurance?......Page 120
4 Resentment and Assurance......Page 124
Getting Resentment in Broader View......Page 132
Resentment and Threat......Page 137
Resentment as Moral Address......Page 147
When Should We Care?......Page 150
Resentment and Other Emotions of Rebuke......Page 162
5 Forgiving......Page 165
Forswearing Resentment......Page 168
Restoring Relationships......Page 172
Fixing a Wrong in the Past......Page 183
The Unforgivable......Page 189
6 Making Amends......Page 205
The Pragmatics of Repair......Page 206
Ordinary Measures, Extraordinary Cases......Page 212
Restorative Justice and Hard Cases......Page 221
Historical Injustice and Black Redress......Page 232
Bibliography......Page 245
Index......Page 259