Impossible Forgiveness  

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Van Tongeren, Paul

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Ethical Perspectives: Journal of the European Ethics Network vol. 15 no. 3 (Sep. 2008), page 369-379.
Topik: Forgiveness; Derrida; (theological) virtue; Thomas Aquinas

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE45.13 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Insofar as notion of forgiveness stems from Jewish and Christian traditions, it seems to point at something very extraordinary. Although Christianity recommends or even commissions forgiveness to everybody, it nevertheless seems to consist of something which is not humanly possible: how could one remember the evil commited (and remember it as evil), and at the same time not blame the one who committed it? By ultimately reserving the entitlement and ability to forgive to God, by describing human forgiveness as theological virtue, and by emphasizing the gratuitous or gracious character of forgiveness, this tradition seems most of all to show that forgiveness is generally speaking impossible. In this paper, this conception of forgiveness is presented with the help of Jacques Derrida. The question how this apparently impossiblity nevertheless sometimes happens is first answered with the help of Thomas Aquinas. Against this background, the paper claims that a 'secular' interpretation of forgiveness is also possible, which does justice to its being humanly impossible. Such interpretation describes forgiveness as an intersubjective act.

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