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A Poetics of ForgivenessConclusion: Forgiveness as an Ethics of Everyday Life

A Poetics of Forgiveness: Conclusion: Forgiveness as an Ethics of Everyday Life [I have already said a great deal about forgiveness, but there are a few points that I would like to emphasize. As I see it, forgiveness is not necessarily a one-time response to specific acts of wrongdoing, but rather a constant attention to ethical relations with others and a mode of being in the world. Not limited by time or space, we can speak—in the continuous present—of the work of forgiving in the same way that we acknowledge mourning as an ongoing ethical engagement with loss.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Poetics of ForgivenessConclusion: Forgiveness as an Ethics of Everyday Life

Scott, Jill
Springer Journals — Oct 10, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
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978-1-349-37911-8
Pages
199 –203
DOI
10.1057/9780230106246_9
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Abstract

[I have already said a great deal about forgiveness, but there are a few points that I would like to emphasize. As I see it, forgiveness is not necessarily a one-time response to specific acts of wrongdoing, but rather a constant attention to ethical relations with others and a mode of being in the world. Not limited by time or space, we can speak—in the continuous present—of the work of forgiving in the same way that we acknowledge mourning as an ongoing ethical engagement with loss.]

Published: Oct 10, 2015

Keywords: Ethical Relation; Walk Away; Reconciliation Commission; Historical Injustice; Postcolonial Theory

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