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    Forgiveness is not the forswearing or overcoming of resen... — Carmelics
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    Forgiveness is not the forswearing or overcoming of resentment.

    Forgiveness & Mercy
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    • 1.Resentment itself is natural and innocent.
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    • 2.It is only when resentment is indulged and allowed to bleed into revenge that a violation of goodwill occurs.
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    • 3.The work of forgiveness is to prevent resentment from leading us to seek revenge, not to eliminate resentment itself.
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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy's foundational account holds that forgiveness is precisely the 'foreswearing of resentment on moral grounds' — making resentment-dissolution its defining feature.
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    • 2.If forgiveness leaves resentment intact and merely redirects it away from revenge, it is indistinguishable from mere self-restraint or moral self-discipline.
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    • 3.A conceptual account that cannot distinguish forgiveness from grudging non-retaliation fails as an analysis of the distinct moral phenomenon we call forgiveness.
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    • 1.Charles Griswold argues that genuine forgiveness requires a change in the victim's affective stance toward the wrongdoer, not merely a behavioral change in how resentment is expressed.
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    • 2.Retaining resentment while forswearing revenge is compatible with continued contempt, diminished goodwill, and relational estrangement — states paradigmatically absent in paradigm cases of forgiveness.
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    • 3.Therefore, overcoming resentment is not incidental to forgiveness but constitutive of the restored moral relationship forgiveness is meant to achieve.
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    It is widely thought that forgiveness is fundamentally a matter of how one feels about another. Jeffrie Murphy, for example, claims that “[f]orgiveness is primarily a matter of how I feel about you (not how I treat you)” (Murphy & Hampton 1988: 21; cf. Hughes 1993: 108). Broadly speaking, emotion accounts of forgiveness claim that forgiveness is best understood as fundamentally a change in emotion. According to such views, were you to be wronged, your forgiving the wrongdoer fundamentally involves your overcoming (or abating, or eliminating, or forswearing) some relevant negative emotion (...

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