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Forgiving is accomplished only when one successfully goes... — Carmelics

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Forgiving is accomplished only when one successfully goes through both stages.

Forgiveness & Mercy

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1.Forgiveness requires a change in emotion towards the wrongdoer.
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2.Forgiveness requires an intentional alteration of one's assessments about the wrongdoer as a person.
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1.Jeffrie Murphy argues forgiveness is fundamentally an alteration of resentment alone, requiring no separate cognitive reassessment of the wrongdoer's character.
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2.Collapsing emotional and cognitive stages into a single affective shift better explains cases where forgiveness feels sudden and complete without deliberate reappraisal.
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1.Charles Griswold's account holds that forgiveness can be partial and graduated, meaning binary stage-completion misrepresents its essentially processual and revisable nature.
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2.If forgiveness admits of degrees rather than discrete stages, then demanding completion of both stages sets an artificially high threshold that excludes paradigm cases of genuine forgiveness.
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Charles Griswold's account holds that forgiveness can be partial and graduated, ...Collapsing emotional and cognitive stages into a single affective shift better e...Forgiveness requires a change in emotion towards the wrongdoer.Forgiveness requires an intentional alteration of one's assessments about the wr...

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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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