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Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea
Konstan, David (Brown University, Rhode Island)
Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea
Konstan, David (Brown University, Rhode Island)
In this book, David Konstan argues that the modern concept of interpersonal forgiveness, in the full sense of the term, did not exist in ancient Greece and Rome. For all its vast importance today in religion, law, politics and psychotherapy, interpersonal forgiveness is a creation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when the Christian concept of divine forgiveness was fully secularized.
206 pages
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 30, 2012 |
ISBN13 | 9781107680203 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Dimensions | 158 × 226 × 14 mm · 320 g |
Language | English |