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    It is not the case that Resentment must be overcome in order for one 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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    • 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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