The time of reconciliation and the space of politics [electronic resource]
- Bib ID:
- 3187811
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Schaap, Andrew, 1972-
- Online Access:
- Archived at ANL
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- Description:
- Melbourne : Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, 2003
- Series:
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- Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics working papers series ; 2003/8.
- PANDORA electronic collection.
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web and Internet. Available at: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/cappe/PDF%20Files/Schapp1.pdf
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- Summary:
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Reconciliation is often discussed in terms of restoring moral community (e.g. see Bennett 2002, 2003). On this account, wrongdoing alienates the perpetrator both from the victims he has injured (by failing to show respect for them as his moral equals) and from the moral community he has disturbed (by violating its publicly recognised norms). Reconciliation is initiated by the perpetrator's acknowledgement of the wrongfulness of his act, followed by remorse and reparation, which opens the way for forgiveness and, ultimately, the restoration of community. In this paper, I presuppose that it is a political mistake to think of reconciliation in these terms, given the starkly opposed narratives in terms of which members of a divided polity typically make sense of past political violence. A project of reconciliation is unlikely to ever get off the ground, in such contexts, if it is made conditional on first establishing a shared moral account of the nature of past wrongs. Community can not be presupposed because the politics of reconciliation turn precisely on the question of belonging, of who "we" are.
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- Title from title screen (viewed on 15 Aug. 2003)
- Text.
- This Working paper was published on the Charles Sturt University's home page.
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- Subject:
- Reconciliation
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