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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Auteur principal: Smith, Nick
Format: Livre
Langue:English
Publié: Cambridge University Press 2013
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Law
Accès en ligne:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35561
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Résumé: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