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Forgiveness must be defined so that it involves more than... — Carmelics

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Forgiveness must be defined so that it involves more than simply effecting certain psychological changes for moral reasons.

Forgiveness & Mercy

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Forgiveness requires both a change in emotion towards the wrongdoer and an intentional alteration of one's assessments about the wrongdoer as a person.
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1.Jeffrie Murphy's Kantian account holds that forgiveness is constituted entirely by the overcoming of resentment for morally appropriate reasons.
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2.If the moral quality of the psychological change is what distinguishes genuine forgiveness from mere forgetting, no additional non-psychological condition is required.
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3.Adding non-psychological requirements beyond moral emotion-change creates a conceptually inflated account that excludes paradigm cases of genuine forgiveness.
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1.Charles Griswold's narrative reconstruction account entails that sincere internal psychological reorientation toward the wrongdoer just is what forgiving consists in.
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2.If forgiveness is fundamentally a response to the wrongdoer's moral status, then effecting the correct psychological change for the correct moral reasons fully satisfies that relational demand.
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This does not mean that the forgiver comes to approve of the wrongdoer’s action or the character trait that precipitated it—that disapproval must remain in order for forgiveness not to collapse into condonation. Rather, by having a change of heart towards the wrongdoer himself, the forgiver frees herself from hatred and indignation, allowing herself to accept the wrongdoer as a decent person worthy of “renewed association” (Murphy & Hampton 1988: 83, 85). On Hampton’s account then, forgiveness requires both a change in emotion towards the wrongdoer, and an intentional alteration of one’s a...

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