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Love's Forgiveness - Kierkegaard, Resentment, Humility, and Hope (Hardcover)
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Love's Forgiveness - Kierkegaard, Resentment, Humility, and Hope (Hardcover)
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Love's Forgiveness combines a discussion of the nature and ethics
of forgiveness with a discussion-inspired by Kierkegaard-of the
implications of considering interpersonal forgiveness as a 'work of
love'. It introduces the reader to some key questions that have
exercised recent philosophers of forgiveness, discussing the
relationship between forgiveness and an extended notion of
resentment; considering whether forgiveness should be conditional
or unconditional (showcasing a particular understanding of the
latter); and arguing that there are legitimate forms of third party
forgiveness. It then introduces the idea of forgiveness as a work
of love through a discussion of Kierkegaard, key New Testament
passages on forgiveness, and some contemporary work on the
philosophy of love. Drawing on both philosophy and the New
Testament, it offers an understanding of forgiveness that
incorporates both agapic love and a proper concern for justice.
John Lippitt explores religious and secular uses of key metaphors
for forgiveness, and the idea of forgivingness as a character
trait, suggesting that seeking to correct for various cognitive
biases is key to the development of such a virtue, and connecting
it to other putative virtues, such as humility and hope. Lippitt
draws on both Kierkegaard's discourse literature and contemporary
philosophical work on these latter characteristics, before turning
to a discussion of the nature of self-forgiveness. Throughout the
book, the philosophical and theological literature is rooted in a
discussion of various 'forgiveness narratives', including Helen
Prejean's Dead Man Walking, Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger's South
of Forgiveness, and Ian McEwan's Atonement.
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