Jeffrie G. Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195178555
- eISBN:
- 9780199850129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178555.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
The previous chapters have offered a comprehensive analysis of forgiveness that provides a religious framework on its related issues. This chapter summarizes the message that the book advocates. ...
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The previous chapters have offered a comprehensive analysis of forgiveness that provides a religious framework on its related issues. This chapter summarizes the message that the book advocates. Choosing between forgiveness and vindictiveness is not a choice between reason and compulsion. Hasty forgiveness may sometimes entail danger both on the victim and the wrongdoer. Though the virtue of forgiveness should be highly regarded, we should also acknowledge that victims deserve to have their vindictive passions valued as well rather than judging and giving sermons to them.Less
The previous chapters have offered a comprehensive analysis of forgiveness that provides a religious framework on its related issues. This chapter summarizes the message that the book advocates. Choosing between forgiveness and vindictiveness is not a choice between reason and compulsion. Hasty forgiveness may sometimes entail danger both on the victim and the wrongdoer. Though the virtue of forgiveness should be highly regarded, we should also acknowledge that victims deserve to have their vindictive passions valued as well rather than judging and giving sermons to them.
Michael Neill
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183860
- eISBN:
- 9780191674112
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183860.003.0009
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama, 16th-century and Renaissance Literature
The action of revenge tragedy often manifests acute anxieties about the proprieties of burial. It is from the initial failure to honour Andrea's obsequies that the vindictive action of The Spanish ...
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The action of revenge tragedy often manifests acute anxieties about the proprieties of burial. It is from the initial failure to honour Andrea's obsequies that the vindictive action of The Spanish Tragedy appears to spring; just as it is the dangerous persistence of unburied human remains in Hoffman and The Revenger's Tragedy that helps to produce their catastrophic holocausts; while in Hamlet the hero's vindictive rage against the King and Queen is triggered by the disgraceful ‘mirth in funeral’ that has disrupted the mourning ceremonies due to his dead father, and which seems directly related to the restless presence of the Ghost. Such preoccupations help to reveal how the Renaissance continued to preserve the ancient pagan superstition that happiness beyond the grave was somehow contingent upon proper disposal and preservation of one's mortal remains – a belief that is probably reflected in the formulaic curse protecting William Shakespeare's own tomb from disturbance.Less
The action of revenge tragedy often manifests acute anxieties about the proprieties of burial. It is from the initial failure to honour Andrea's obsequies that the vindictive action of The Spanish Tragedy appears to spring; just as it is the dangerous persistence of unburied human remains in Hoffman and The Revenger's Tragedy that helps to produce their catastrophic holocausts; while in Hamlet the hero's vindictive rage against the King and Queen is triggered by the disgraceful ‘mirth in funeral’ that has disrupted the mourning ceremonies due to his dead father, and which seems directly related to the restless presence of the Ghost. Such preoccupations help to reveal how the Renaissance continued to preserve the ancient pagan superstition that happiness beyond the grave was somehow contingent upon proper disposal and preservation of one's mortal remains – a belief that is probably reflected in the formulaic curse protecting William Shakespeare's own tomb from disturbance.
Harry Hendrick
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447322559
- eISBN:
- 9781447322573
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447322559.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Marriage and the Family
This book analyses the social, political and economic reasons behind parenting trends. It shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social democratic ...
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This book analyses the social, political and economic reasons behind parenting trends. It shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the narcissistic parent. The book charts the shift from the liberal and progressive parenting styles of the 1940-1970s, to the more 'behavioural', punitive and managerial methods of child rearing today, made popular by 'tough love' experts, and by New Labour's parent education programmes. The book argues that this trend is symptomatic of the sour, mean-spirited and vindictive social norms found throughout society today, which undermine the better instincts of parents and damage parent-child relations. The book urges parents to focus on helping and understanding their children as they work at growing up.Less
This book analyses the social, political and economic reasons behind parenting trends. It shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the narcissistic parent. The book charts the shift from the liberal and progressive parenting styles of the 1940-1970s, to the more 'behavioural', punitive and managerial methods of child rearing today, made popular by 'tough love' experts, and by New Labour's parent education programmes. The book argues that this trend is symptomatic of the sour, mean-spirited and vindictive social norms found throughout society today, which undermine the better instincts of parents and damage parent-child relations. The book urges parents to focus on helping and understanding their children as they work at growing up.
Jeffrie G. Murphy
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195178555
- eISBN:
- 9780199850129
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195178555.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
Some essential values could be compromised if one overcomes vindictiveness in hasty forgiveness. This argument is defended in this chapter as the chapter illustrates the rationality and moral ...
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Some essential values could be compromised if one overcomes vindictiveness in hasty forgiveness. This argument is defended in this chapter as the chapter illustrates the rationality and moral legitimacy of the passion of vindictiveness. This part focuses on which category should vindictiveness belong to—among those passions that no morally decent person would willingly retain or among those that bring moral credit to the person who possesses them. Criticisms regarding vindictiveness are also examined. However, the chapter finds these arguments weak in establishing the irrationality or immorality of it therefore justifying that vindictive passions can legitimately be attributed to sane and virtuous individuals.Less
Some essential values could be compromised if one overcomes vindictiveness in hasty forgiveness. This argument is defended in this chapter as the chapter illustrates the rationality and moral legitimacy of the passion of vindictiveness. This part focuses on which category should vindictiveness belong to—among those passions that no morally decent person would willingly retain or among those that bring moral credit to the person who possesses them. Criticisms regarding vindictiveness are also examined. However, the chapter finds these arguments weak in establishing the irrationality or immorality of it therefore justifying that vindictive passions can legitimately be attributed to sane and virtuous individuals.
Jennifer Ingleheart
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199603848
- eISBN:
- 9780191731587
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603848.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
A rather different picture from the stereotype of Ovid as sorrowful poet of exile emerges from his Ibis, a curse-poem in which Ovid viciously and repeatedly attacks the pseudonymous enemy he blames ...
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A rather different picture from the stereotype of Ovid as sorrowful poet of exile emerges from his Ibis, a curse-poem in which Ovid viciously and repeatedly attacks the pseudonymous enemy he blames for seeking to make his exilic circumstances worse. The extreme and vindictive persona of the exiled Ovid on display in the Ibis has been neglected by later readers, yet the Ibis was published in English translation (in a 1569 version by Thomas Underdowne) before the Tristia (1572) and Epistulae ex Ponto (1639), the works usually regarded as Ovid’s ‘exile poetry’. This chapter explores the reasons for the neglect of the figure of Ovid as it appears in the Ibis, as well as its appeal to translators such as Underdowne, John Jones, and David Slavitt.Less
A rather different picture from the stereotype of Ovid as sorrowful poet of exile emerges from his Ibis, a curse-poem in which Ovid viciously and repeatedly attacks the pseudonymous enemy he blames for seeking to make his exilic circumstances worse. The extreme and vindictive persona of the exiled Ovid on display in the Ibis has been neglected by later readers, yet the Ibis was published in English translation (in a 1569 version by Thomas Underdowne) before the Tristia (1572) and Epistulae ex Ponto (1639), the works usually regarded as Ovid’s ‘exile poetry’. This chapter explores the reasons for the neglect of the figure of Ovid as it appears in the Ibis, as well as its appeal to translators such as Underdowne, John Jones, and David Slavitt.
C. Collard, M. J. Cropp, and K. H. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780856686191
- eISBN:
- 9781800342699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9780856686191.003.0004
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Plays and Playwrights: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter evaluates Euripides' Stheneboea, a play of remarkable content and effects. The unsuccessful seduction of Bellerophon by Stheneboea leads to two plots against him by her husband, Proetus, ...
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This chapter evaluates Euripides' Stheneboea, a play of remarkable content and effects. The unsuccessful seduction of Bellerophon by Stheneboea leads to two plots against him by her husband, Proetus, King of Tiryns, to whom she secretly accuses Bellerophon of attempted rape. Stheneboea, in her sinful and then vindictive passion, is recognisable in the character type of Phaedra in Hippolytus. However, the fullness and theatricality of Stheneboea suggest that Euripides had less room to examine the psychologies of Stheneboea and Bellerophon than of Phaedra and Hippolytus, and that Stheneboea was an exciting if intensely human play while the surviving Hippolytus play at least was more deliberately tragic. What we have of Bellerophon's Prologue gives no hint of his later capacity for vengeance, despite a previous killing, but Hippolytus's self-destruction is entirely credible after his brief first appearance.Less
This chapter evaluates Euripides' Stheneboea, a play of remarkable content and effects. The unsuccessful seduction of Bellerophon by Stheneboea leads to two plots against him by her husband, Proetus, King of Tiryns, to whom she secretly accuses Bellerophon of attempted rape. Stheneboea, in her sinful and then vindictive passion, is recognisable in the character type of Phaedra in Hippolytus. However, the fullness and theatricality of Stheneboea suggest that Euripides had less room to examine the psychologies of Stheneboea and Bellerophon than of Phaedra and Hippolytus, and that Stheneboea was an exciting if intensely human play while the surviving Hippolytus play at least was more deliberately tragic. What we have of Bellerophon's Prologue gives no hint of his later capacity for vengeance, despite a previous killing, but Hippolytus's self-destruction is entirely credible after his brief first appearance.
Nina H. B. Jørgensen
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198298618
- eISBN:
- 9780191685491
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198298618.003.0018
- Subject:
- Law, Public International Law
This chapter describes categories of damages such as moral damage, aggravated damages, exemplary damages, vindictive damages, and punitive damages. It focuses on the possible punitive function of ...
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This chapter describes categories of damages such as moral damage, aggravated damages, exemplary damages, vindictive damages, and punitive damages. It focuses on the possible punitive function of damages on the question whether punitive damages are a distinct category. It also explores the existing or potential link between punitive damages and international crimes, in an attempt to demonstrate the usefulness of such a category of damages as a possible consequence of state crimes.Less
This chapter describes categories of damages such as moral damage, aggravated damages, exemplary damages, vindictive damages, and punitive damages. It focuses on the possible punitive function of damages on the question whether punitive damages are a distinct category. It also explores the existing or potential link between punitive damages and international crimes, in an attempt to demonstrate the usefulness of such a category of damages as a possible consequence of state crimes.
