Paula Ricoeura teoria wybaczania a problemy winy, kary i tożsamości osobowej

• Authors: Kaplita Marek

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Paul Ricoeur’s theory of forgiveness and the problems of guilt, punishment and personal identity

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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This paper contains a polemical analysis of the conception of forgiveness as presented by Paul Ricoeur in his book Memory, history, forgetting, where he defines forgiveness as a liberation of a person from his or her past deed. My main objection is that he mixes up philosophical and theological discourses, which makes his theory paradoxical and vague. I attempt to resolve antinomies of Ricoeur’s view and propose the conception that is based on entirely philosophical, rational argumentation. My principal purposes are, firstly, to present forgiveness as a merely human phenomenon that can be understood without referring to Transcendence and, secondly, to bring out the distinction between an act of forgiveness and a releasing from a punishment which belongs to the order of political institutions and law.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Papieski Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
• Journal: Logos i Ethos
• Year: 2012
• Issue: 2(33)
• Pages: 109–122

Contributors

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Kaplita Marek

• Uniwersytet Jagielloński

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