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Resentment must be overcome in order for one to forgive. — Carmelics

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Resentment must be overcome in order for one to forgive.

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1.Resentment is a paradigm case of moral anger.
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2.Moral anger must be overcome in order to forgive.
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1.Jeffrie Murphy acknowledges that resentment can be retained while forgiveness is granted when the wrongdoer demonstrates genuine repentance.
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2.Forgiveness is better understood as a change in the normative standing of resentment—rendering it no longer appropriate to act on—rather than its elimination.
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3.One can forgive an unrepentant wrongdoer while retaining residual resentment, provided one no longer lets that resentment govern one's moral relationship with them.
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1.Charles Griswold distinguishes forgiveness from the psychological state of the forgiver, locating it in a normative commitment to relinquish moral claims rather than in affective transformation.
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2.If forgiveness is a performative or normative act rather than an emotional achievement, then overcoming resentment is a possible consequence of forgiving, not a necessary precondition.
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One way to differentiate between the varieties of emotion accounts is according to the emotion or set of emotions that are thought to be relevant to forgiveness. A cursory survey of the forgiveness literature might give one the impression that there is widespread agreement about which emotion is crucially implicated in forgiveness. That emotion is resentment. The view that forgiveness crucially implicates resentment is usually taken to be “received orthodoxy” (Bash 2007: 161; cf. Kekes 2009: 490; Radzik 2009: 117; and Zaibert 2009: 38). But any impression of wholesale agreement would be mistak...

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