Assignment: Ethics Philosophy essay

Length: 600 words.

Note: Do not use any direct quotations, just use your own words to explain their ideas clearly!!! Answer all questions!

Part A: Defend a conceptualization of forgiveness, showing how it can be distinguished from some closely related concepts (e.g. excusing, justifying, etc.). Your view can draw from any of the authors we have examined, and it can be defended by showing what is wrong with competing views.

Part B: Answer following question for the second part of your essay:

1. According to your conceptualization of forgiveness, how should we think of self-forgiveness? Show how the view you have defended is better than competing accounts of self-forgiveness.

Readings:

1. FORGIVENESS by Aurel Kolnai.
2. Forgiveness and Resentment by JEFFRIE G. MURPHY.
3. HOW IS SELF-FORGIVENESS POSSIBLE? BY PER-ERIK MILAM.
4. THE STANDING TO FORGIVE.
5. What is involved in Forgiving? by Paul M. Hughes.