Journal 1 - Forgiveness

[tantetasha]

The paper:  The Three Dimensions of Forgiveness
Newberry, P. (2004)
Published in Philosophy in the Contemporary World Vol. 11 No. 2 Fall-Winter 2004

If you can't find the paper from the information given, let me know and I will see about forwarding a copy for your reading pleasure.

Read on for my opinionated self:

I found Paul Newberry’s “The Three

Comments

[warmage]

I found the vast majority of the paper itself to be self-evident, though it is good to have some prose to flesh out my own intrinsic understanding of the concept. Like you, I also began to focus somewhat on the structure of the argument and the verbiage used and found some terms to be simplistic or evocative of a negative reaction. Note that in most or all cases the "victim" (I would prefer the term "wronged" or "disenfranchised")is described with a female pronoun, suggesting that Newberry himself has allowed some preconception of "victim" to be involved with forgiveness. This leads me to consider a subtext wherein exists the "branding" of a male as the aggressor (Neewberry's "wrongdoer") in most or all of his examples, based on the reflexive nature arising from reading "she" in place of "vitctim