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Philosophical concept

Forgiveness

Forgiveness refuses to preserve wrongdoing as an endless debt without denying the harm or erasing the need for repair.

Works
178
Passages
2,206
Thinkers
37
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Forgiveness refuses to preserve wrongdoing as an endless debt without denying the harm or erasing the need for repair.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,206 passages across 178 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Eudemian Ethics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: pardon, forgive, remission, remittere

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  8. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  9. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  10. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  11. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  12. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  13. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  14. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  15. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  16. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  17. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  18. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  19. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  20. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  21. On FriendshipCicero · 0 passages
  22. On Old AgeCicero · 0 passages
  23. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  24. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  25. On the RepublicCicero · 0 passages
  26. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  27. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  28. Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes · 0 passages
  29. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  30. Geometry and Experience, French TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages