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    It is not the case that Forgiveness must be defined so that it involves more than simply effecting certain psychological changes for moral reasons.

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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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    • 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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