Articulating an uncompromising forgiveness
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (3):529-555 (2001)
Abstract
I first pose a challenge which, it seems to me, any philosophical account of forgiveness must meet: the account must be articulate and it must allow for forgiveness that is uncompromising. I then examine an account of forgiveness which appears to meet this challenge. Upon closer examination we discover that this account actually fails to meet the challenge—but it fails in very instructive ways. The account takes two missteps which seem to be taken by almost everyone discussing forgiveness. At the end, I sketch an alternative account of forgiveness, one that I think meets the challenge and avoids the missteps.Author's Profile
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0031-8205
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10.1111/j.1933-1592.2001.tb00073.x
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