Paul Ricoeur's Anthropology of Forgiveness

• Main Author: Dionisio, Guillermo R.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Ricoeur; philosophical anthropology; narrative identity; conditional forgiveness; unconditional forgiveness
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol20/iss2/5; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1334/viewcontent/Budhi_2020.2_205_20Article_20__20Dionisio.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

In his philosophical anthropology Paul Ricoeur sees man’s innate goodness, despite his propensity for evil, ramifying into many capacities, among them, forgiveness. The capacity to forgive, for Ricoeur, lies between the paralysis of the power to act due to human fault, and the possible lifting of th...