
Robert Rowland Smith on Derrida on Forgiveness
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The Paradox of Forgiveness
Forgiveness requires two contradictory conditions to be met. On the one hand that the act is unforgivable, but of course it has to be forgivable for it to take place in the first place. Forgiveness by its very nature has to occur as if there were the unforgivable on the scene at the same time. The only thing worth forgiving is the very thing which you can't forgive.
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