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Forgiveness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

R. J. O'Shaughnessy
R. J. O'Shaughnessy
Affiliation:
Hatfield College of Technology
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I have no comment to make on the aesthetic merits of these verses. I have put them at the head of my discussion because they happen to introduce a cluster of concepts connected with forgiveness: pride, love, hate, God, friendship, goodwill, eternity, offence, condemnation, resentment, blame. We may think that some, but not all, of these have essential connections with the concept in which we are interested. And we may, of course, think that the list is incomplete. Other obvious candidates spring to mind: pity, for example, repentance, compassion, punishment and pardoning.

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Philosophy , Volume 42 , Issue 162 , October 1967 , pp. 336 - 352
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1967

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