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Vladimir Jankelevitch is one of my new favorite philosophers. This penetrating look at forgiveness employs an apophatic method of approaching the "limit of pure forgiveness," that normative ideal which continuously resists human conceptualizing. Jankelevitch sets up his description of forgiveness so well in the first two thirds of the book by effectively deconstructing contemporary experiences of "forgiveness" such as temporal decay and the excuse. The result is an incredibly clear, well-written...
This book presented an analytical view of forgiveness of what it is and what it is not.Excusing is not forgiving and forgetting as in "time heals all wounds" is not forgiving either. The idea that to understand is to forgive is also not forgiveness and makes forgiveness useless.Forgiveness is outside of justice, ethics, and even morality. It is spontaneous and must be done freely to be done truly. In a sense, it is one's chance to bestow grace. Anyway, that's some of what I thought he was saying...
