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Excuse and justification: What’s explanation and understanding got to do with it?

dc.contributor.authorPleasants, N
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-18T13:25:30Z
dc.date.issued2021-01-27
dc.description.abstractA well-worn French proverb pronounces ‘tout comprendre c’est tout pardonner’ (‘to understand all is to forgive all’). Is forgiveness the inevitable consequence of social scientific understanding of the actions and lives of perpetrators of serious wrongdoing? Do social scientific explanations provide excuses or justifications for the perpetrators of the actions that the explanations purport to explain? In this essay, I seek clarification of these intertwined explanatory and moral questions.
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 27 January 2021en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1368431020986753
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/124215
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherSAGE Publicationsen_GB
dc.rights© The Author(s) 2021. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
dc.subjectExcuse
dc.subjectexplanation
dc.subjectjustification
dc.subjectsocial science
dc.subjectunderstanding
dc.titleExcuse and justification: What’s explanation and understanding got to do with it?en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2020-12-18T13:25:30Z
dc.identifier.issn1368-4310
dc.descriptionThis is the final version. Available on open access from SAGE Publications via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.eissn1461-7137
dc.identifier.journalEuropean Journal of Social Theoryen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2020-12-02
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2020-12-02
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2020-12-18T12:06:00Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
refterms.dateFOA2021-02-03T10:31:30Z
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© The Author(s) 2021. Open access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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