• Sources and Acknowledgments


• Introduction


• 1. Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Responding to Evil: A Philosophical Overview


• 2. Moral Epistemology, the Retributive Emotions, and the 'Clumsy Moral Philosophy' of Jesus Christ


• 3. Christian Love and Criminal Punishment


• 4. Legal Moralism and Retribution Revisited


• 5. Shame Creeps Through Guilt and Feels Like Retribution


• 6. Repentance, Mercy, and Communicative Punishment


• 7. Remorse, Apology, and Mercy - with new appendix.


• 8. The Case of Dostoyevsky's General - Some Ruminations on Forgiving the Unforgivable


• 9. Response to Neu, Zipursky, and Steiker


• 10. Jealousy, Shame, and the Rival


• 11. Moral Reasons and the Limitations of Liberty


• 12. The Elusive Nature of Human Dignity


• Index

Jeffrie G. Murphy is Regents Professor of Philosophy and Law, Arizona State University. He is the author of Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits.

The essays in this collection explore, from philosophical and religious perspectives, a variety of moral emotions and their relationship to punishment and condemnation or to decisions to lessen punishment or condemnation.