Contempt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
Contempt, Forgiveness, and Reconciliation
While contempt can do important moral work, there are sometimes reasons to overcome it through a process of forgiveness. This chapter explores what it means to overcome contempt through forgiveness and offers an account of good reasons to do so. This account of forgiveness has implications for understanding social reconciliation and the role that reparations and memorials may play in giving persons reasons to overcome their apt contempt for institutions.
Keywords: forgiveness, reasons to forgive, repentance, character transformation, shame, reparations, memorials, reconciliation
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