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    Self-forgiveness serves two important self-regarding purp... — Carmelics
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    Self-forgiveness serves two important self-regarding purposes.

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    • 1.Self-forgiveness serves the purpose of restoring wrongdoers to full moral agency even in the absence of the victim's forgiveness.
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    • 2.Self-forgiveness constitutes a second-best alternative to full interpersonal forgiveness, in the sense that when full interpersonal forgiveness is not forthcoming, self-forgiving is nevertheless an important and sometimes morally appropriate response to having done wrong.
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    • 1.Self-forgiveness that bypasses the victim's judgment risks entrenching moral self-satisfaction rather than genuine moral repair (Murphy's 'self-love' objection).
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    • 2.Restoring one's own moral agency is a self-regarding benefit that cannot substitute for the victim-centered relational work that forgiveness properly requires.
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    • 1.On Kantian grounds, the wrongdoer and the wronged party are distinct moral subjects, so no single agent can coherently occupy both the granting and receiving roles of forgiveness.
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    • 2.What self-forgiveness describes is more accurately characterized as self-acceptance or self-reconciliation, making the 'self-forgiveness' label a conceptual confusion rather than a genuine moral category.
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    Nancy Snow (1992) argues that self-forgiveness serves two important self-regarding purposes (though see Hughes 1994). First, it serves the purpose of restoring wrongdoers to full moral agency even in the absence of the victim’s forgiveness. This is similar to Holmgren’s claim (1998) that self-forgiving is a way of restoring or maintaining one’s intrinsic self-worth, which she argues is an extension of her analysis of interpersonal forgiveness. Zenon Szablowinski (2011) concurs, arguing that a failure to self-forgive may be detrimental to a wrongdoer’s moral and psychological well-being, and th...

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