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    In order to forgive, one must overcome both hostile retri... — Carmelics
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    In order to forgive, one must overcome both hostile retributive feelings and moral anger (moderate emotionalism).

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    • 1.Overcoming hostile feelings alone is not enough for forgiveness.
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    • 2.One may harbor moral anger towards a wrongdoer without thereby wishing that she suffers for what she did.
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    • 3.Both moral anger and hostile feelings must be given up in order to forgive.
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    • 1.Moral anger (resentment) can persist after genuine forgiveness, as Bishop Butler distinguished forgiving a person from ceasing all indignation at their act.
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    • 2.Retaining measured moral anger at a wrong is compatible with full reconciliation and goodwill toward the wrongdoer, which are the hallmarks of forgiveness.
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    • 3.Requiring the elimination of moral anger conflates forgiving the person with condoning or excusing the wrongful act itself.
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    • 1.On Jeffrie Murphy's account, some residual resentment after forgiveness is not only permissible but morally appropriate as a sign of self-respect.
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    • 2.If forgiveness required total elimination of moral anger, self-respecting victims would be morally prohibited from forgiving, which is an implausible constraint on the practice.
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    Alternatively, let moderate emotionalism be the view that in order to forgive, one must overcome both hostile retributive feelings and what we may call moral anger. According to moderate emotionalism, overcoming hostile feelings is not enough for forgiveness. One may harbor moral anger towards a wrongdoer (so the view goes) without thereby wishing that she suffers for what she did. But both moral anger and hostile feelings must be given up in order to forgive. Paul Hughes defends something like moderate emotionalism. An attitude counts as moral anger according to Hughes if it is “partially con...

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