XXII Jornades de Foment de la Investigació de la Facultat de Ciències Humanes i Socials (Any 2017)The purpose of this paper is to approach the act and process of
forgiveness as an imperfect human ability for peace, exploring the
pragmaticality, prudentiality and ethicality of human forgiveness
before moral wrongs.
To conduct my research, firstly I will assume the epistemological
turn that has been developed at the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for
Peace from Universitat Jaume I. This epistemological turn means we
no longer work with a negative definition of peace but a positive one,
that is, we do not define peace as the absence of violence, but as the
presence of social justice.
Secondly, I will establish a dialogue between the Philosophy for
Peace approach and Christian theology as a key element for grasping
a deeper understanding of the act and process of forgiveness, since
this imperfect human ability of forgiveness has been a core theme of
the Christian religion during the last two thousand years.
It is argued that imperfect human forgiveness is pragmatically,
prudentially and ethically adequate when we need to address
different moral wrongs in different contexts of violence. Therefore,
fostering forgiveness in those settings may help us to build more
peaceful societies, as in the same way that we have learnt to hurt
each other, we can learn to forgive one anothe
