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Episode 101: Miranda Fricker discusses blame and forgiveness

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The Importance of Forgiveness

Time that it's right to forgive someone is either the time at which the blame has been successful as in they now understand why they shouldn't have done what they did or when it's clear that that's never going to happen. People often make a judgment that they don't want to go on being this angry, he says. Forgiveness can be described entirely independently from anything to do with the wrongdoer or the effect of forgiveness on them and i regard that as a secondary aspect so i slightly surprised myself in coming to this view because my tendency is normally to think of everything as relational intrinsically relational right down to the bottom.

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