Forgiveness: An Alternative Account Potts Matthew Ichihashi
A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving worldMatthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too…
Specifikacia Forgiveness: An Alternative Account Potts Matthew Ichihashi
A deeply researched and poignant reflection on the practice of forgiveness in an unforgiving worldMatthew Ichihashi Potts explores the complex moral terrain of forgiveness, which he claims has too often served as a salve to the conscience of power rather than as an instrument of healing or justice. Though forgiveness is often linked with reconciliation or the abatement of anger, Potts resists these associations, asserting instead that forgiveness is simply the refusal of retaliatory violence through practices of penitence and grief. It is an act of mourning irrevocable wrong, of refusing the false promises of violent redemption, and of living in and with the losses we cannot recover.Drawing on novels by Kazuo Ishiguro, Marilynne Robinson, Louise Erdrich, and Toni Morrison, and on texts from the early Christian to the postmodern, Potts diagnoses the real dangers of