Description: Confucian and Stoic Perspectives on Forgiveness is a study in comparative philosophy exploring the absence of forgiveness in classical Confucianism and Roman Stoicism as well as the alternatives to forgiveness that these traditions offer.
Review Quotes: "In an age defined by outrage, McAleer's comparative study in the ethics of anger, resentment, and forgiveness is both timely and important. Excellently grounded in contemporary philosophical scholarship and an especially close reading of the early Confucians literature, McAleer's book forcefully argues that the early Confucians did not deploy a concept of forgiveness. He offers several compelling explanations for the absence of forgiveness in Confucian and Stoic ethics, and in doing so provides us with fascinating genealogical crumbs for understanding why forgiveness emerged in other moral traditions. Not only does this work serve as an important corrective on some recent scholarship in Confucian ethics, it calls our attention to a significant contrast between Christian and Confucian morality." --Thorian R. Harris, University of California, Davis