Excuse and justification: What’s explanation and understanding got to do with it?
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A well-worn French proverb pronounces ‘ tout comprendre c’est pardonner’ (‘to understand all is to forgive all’). Is forgiveness the inevitable consequence of social scientific understanding actions and lives perpetrators serious wrongdoing? Do explanations provide excuses or justifications for that purport explain? In this essay, I seek clarification these intertwined explanatory moral questions.
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Social Theory
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1461-7137', '1368-4310']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1368431020986753