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  • Margalit and Derrida on Forgiveness and the Skandalon

    Margalit and Derrida on Forgiveness and the Skandalon

    As I see it, the limit of forgiveness is not within our voluntary power, an act of will, but rather in developing the capacity to imagine the act that we are trying to forgive. Thus the skandalon of forgiveness is an imaginative challenge, we stumble over it when acts are unimaginable, and we overleap it…