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28 | A Very Special Holiday Episode: Learning How to Give with Jacques Derrida

What's Left of Philosophy

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What Does It Mean to Give or Forgive Another Person?

Daredos asks what does it mean to give or forgive another person without entering back into a cycle of exchange, a cycle of debt and bartering. He says that if were therre to be a gift, there would actually have to not appear to be a Gift at all. And that seems to be a paradox. What i think the broad lesson we can take from this s the idea of what does it means to give or forgiving another person without enter back into acycle of exchange,. The book is published by Simon & Schuster in hardback with an ebook version available for £4.99 (with free shipping)

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