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Description of  Forgiveness

022604565X pdf Philosopher Vladimir Janklvitch has only recently begun to receive his due from the English-speaking world, thanks in part to discussions of his thought by Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lvinas, and Paul Ricoeur. His international readers have long valued his unique, interdisciplinary approach to philosophys greatest questions and his highly readable writing style. Originally published in 1967, Le Pardon, or Forgiveness, is one of Janklvitchs most influential works. In it, he characterizes the ultimate ethical act of forgiving as behaving toward the perpetrator as if he or she had never committed the action, rather than merely forgetting or rationalizing ita controversial notion when considering events as heinous as the Holocaust. Like so many of Janklvitchs works, Read more