- Hardcover: 262 pages
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition (Sep 18 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0521810884
- ISBN-13: 978-0521810883
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.7 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,097,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Walker presents a compelling picture of the interconnections between hope and trust and moral relations. "While our moral understandings are grounded on trust," she writes, "this trust is in turn dependent on hope." -Brad Wilburn, Chadron State College
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Moral Repair examines the ethics and moral psychology of responses to wrongdoing. Explaining the emotional bonds and normative expectations that keep human beings responsive to moral standards and responsible to each other, Margaret Urban Walker uses realistic examples of both personal betrayal and political violence to analyze how moral bonds are damaged by serious wrongs and what must be done to repair the damage. Focusing on victims of wrong, their right to validation, and their sense of justice, Walker presents a unified and detailed philosophical account of hope, trust, resentment, forgiveness, and making amends - the emotions and practices that sustain moral relations. Moral Repair joins a multidisciplinary literature concerned with transitional and restorative justice, reparations, and restoring individual dignity and mutual trust in the wake of serious wrongs.
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Superb examination of human pain and forgiveness, July 13 2009
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This review is from: Moral Repair: Reconstructing Moral Relations after Wrongdoing (Paperback)
Margaret Urban Walker's 'Moral Repair' is an excellent philosophical analysis of the moral, ethical and emotional issues underlying the experience of human pain, healing and forgiveness. The 'pain' in question here is both physical (e.g., torture) and emotional (e.g., the pain of belonging to a despised minority, etc.). Walker's study runs the gamut from examining pain at the mundane level of reacting to everyday types of issues - insults, rude or unthoughtful treatment, etc. - to the worst sorts of pain imaginable (e.g., losing a family member to political torture, murder etc.)The major focus of the book is the 'repair' of moral relationships following physical and emotional assaults both large and small, at the personal or group level. For instance, the author closely examines the history and effectiveness of South Africa's 'Truth and Reconciliation' Commission and other related approaches that attempt to achieve reconciliation following very grievous and long-lasting atrocities.
This book is not only very good (and very interesting) philosophical analysis, it's also good psychology. And it is a very accessible read - it should be readily understandable by non-specialists (such as myself).
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