Stump's Forgiveness

Authors

  • Brandon Warmke Bowling Green State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v11i1.2570

Keywords:

Forgiveness, atonement, satisfaction, repentance

Abstract

To love someone, Eleonore Stump tells us, is to have two desires: a desire her objective good and a desire for union with her. In Atonement, Stump claims that loving someone—understood as having these desires—is necessary and sufficient for morally appropriate forgiveness. I offer several arguments against this claim.

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Published

2019-03-17

How to Cite

Warmke, Brandon. 2019. “Stump’s Forgiveness”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11 (1):145-63. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v11i1.2570.

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