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    For an act of forgiveness to have positive moral status, ... — Carmelics
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    For an act of forgiveness to have positive moral status, the victim must meet certain conditions, most importantly having the right kind of motivating reasons for forgiving.

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    • 1.Only some kinds of motivating reasons make forgiveness morally positive.
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    • 2.Not all acts of forgiveness have positive moral status; conditions on the victim's reasons must be met.
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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy's Kantian account holds that forgiveness is morally permissible whenever self-respect is not compromised, making motivation secondary to the integrity condition.
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    • 2.A victim who forgives from indifference or exhaustion may still satisfy the self-respect condition and thereby achieve morally positive forgiveness without meeting a reasons-based condition.
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    • 3.Restricting moral status to motivationally 'pure' forgiveness conflates the ethics of forgiveness with virtue ethics about the forgiver's character, which are distinct evaluative domains.
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    • 1.Forgiveness, as Bishop and Warmke note, can be understood as a performative act whose moral value derives from relational repair, not internal motivation.
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    • 2.If the moral status of forgiveness tracks its relational and social effects rather than inner states, then motivation conditions are neither necessary nor sufficient.
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    It is widely thought that in order for an act of forgiveness to have positive moral status, the victim must meet certain conditions. The most commonly cited kind of victim-dependent condition has to do with the victim’s motivating reasons for forgiving. Only some kinds of motivating reasons make forgiveness morally positive. For example, Joram Haber has argued that for an act of forgiveness to be “appropriate” (such that were we to forgive we would not risk “moral reproval”), the victim must forgive for a reason that “preserves self-respect” and that the “only reason that would serve this func...

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