Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Behrouz Asadi ¹
• mohammad karami ²

¹ Department of General Studies, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

² Associate Professor, Department of General Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

One of the manifestations of a person's benevolence is when he decides to forgive a wrongdoer who has wronged him. Proponents of the healing view of forgiveness, due to the destructive effect of resentment, believe that forgiveness frees and strengthens both the forgiver and the forgiven. Forgiveness is not an acquittal of the guilty, but a choice to end the cycle of revenge and leave justice in the hands of God. Meanwhile, some thinkers, including Nietzsche, based on the duality of the morality of slaves and nobles, evaluate forgiveness as a manifestation of the morality of slaves and weak people who are unable to take revenge. In his opinion, forgiveness is a cover for suppressing the feeling of resentment and a sign of weakness of character, lack of transparency, lack of social responsibility, and lack of justice. Regarding the actions of wrongdoers, Nietzsche, while emphasizing revenge, insists on active forgetting. In this article, we first attempt to clarify and explain the concept of forgiveness, distinguishing it from competing concepts such as revenge, seeking justice, apologizing, reconciliation, etc., and then, while explaining Nietzsche's perspective, we criticize and examine it and reveal the fallacy in his argument. So far, no domestic research has been conducted on the philosophical explanation of the concept of forgiveness and the evaluation of Nietzsche's perspective in particular, and this is a sign of the innovation of this article.

Keywords

• "Forgiveness"
• "Revenge"
• "Slave Ethics"
• "Active Forgetting"
• "Justice"

Main Subjects

• philosophy