I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies
Maimonides’ Hilchot Teshuvah, compiled between 1170 and 1180, arguably provides the most recent philosophical monograph devoted to apologies.1 Considering the relevance of apologies to moral philosophy and current general interest in acts of contrition, this surprised me. Philosophers have long...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Online Access: | https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35561 |
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| Summary: | Maimonides’ Hilchot Teshuvah, compiled between 1170 and 1180, arguably
provides the most recent philosophical monograph devoted to apologies.1
Considering the relevance of apologies to moral philosophy and current
general interest in acts of contrition, this surprised me. Philosophers have
long delighted in scrutinizing suspect social practices, and apologies now
seem more than ripe. We share a vague intuition that something has gone
afoul with this ubiquitous gesture, a sense that apologies are rotting on the
vine |
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