by Charles L. Griswald, Jr. Griswold (philosophy, Boston Univ.; Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment ) notes that the concept of forgiveness has "religious overtones," so he wisely—because this is a philosophical inquiry—limits himself to "forgiveness as a secular virtue (that is, as not dependent on any notion of the divine)." In the interpersonal (person-to-person) realm of forgiveness, he examines such related concepts as revenge, resentment, self-respect, atonement, sympathy, mental illness, compassion, pity, the unforgivable and the unforgiven, and self-forgiveness. (Check Catalog)
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