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🗓️ 4 January 2015
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What is forgiveness? Whom does it benefit? Is it ever obligatory? Lucy Allais discusses these questions in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.
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0:00.0 | This is philosophy bites with me Nigel Warburton and me David Edmonds. |
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0:19.3 | Somebody treats you badly. |
0:21.0 | How do you respond? |
0:22.4 | Do you forgive them? Forgiveness is a strange concept. In ordinary |
0:26.6 | conversation we use the term all the time. We think we know what we mean by it. But do we we here's Lucy Lays. |
0:35.0 | Lucy Lays welcome to philosophy bites. I'm a huge fan of your work it's great to be |
0:39.4 | here. The topic we're going to focus on is forgiveness. Now, we all know what forgiveness is, don't we? |
0:47.0 | How could there be a philosophical problem about forgiveness? |
0:51.0 | That's a fantastic question because it's one of those subjects which you think isn't puzzling and as soon as you start thinking about it philosophically, it becomes more and more puzzling until you almost can't understand how anybody could make sense of it. |
1:03.0 | So quite a lot of philosophers think that forgiveness is essentially paradoxical, |
1:08.0 | that it's essentially a religious notion that we can't make sense of it at all. |
1:11.0 | And I think there are two things that drive what makes |
1:13.9 | forgiveness puzzling. So what are those two things? So the one is to really take |
1:18.3 | seriously that forgiveness is something distinct from excusing, justifying, and accepting. |
1:23.6 | Because I think quite often in interpersonal life, |
1:26.4 | we aren't really distinguishing those. |
1:28.3 | And what we take ourselves to be doing |
1:30.4 | quite often when we think we're forgiving |
1:32.1 | is actually excusing justifying or accepting. |
1:34.8 | But the reason that's important that those are distinct is that those are all ways of coming |
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