Getting Even

Most people have faced injustice at some point in their lives. One of the main principles of the pop psychology dogma is to forgive these injustices. This is what the book Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits is about. The purpose of this book is to present in a non - scholarly and non - technical form a concise general outline on the concept of forgiveness. The book explains that individual meanness is immoral and irrational.According to the author of Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits his mother always asked him to understand and forgive and he has been doing so quite exhaustively. He has forgiven his friends and female friends. His work on forgiveness has received attention not only from philosophers but also from people in different academic fields such as clinical psychology theology and law. According to an old saying to err is human to forgive divine this phrase was slightly changed by S J Perelman who said to err is human to forgive supine. the message that in this book is somewhere in between these two extremes. Many people perceive forgiveness in a religious context and for such people this book can take the form of a sermon. Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits was written by Jeffrie G Murphy and is published in paperback format by OUP USA in 2005.Key Features:This book tells readers about the benefits and disadvantages of forgiveness and to what extent people should practise it.