Epilogue
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
Summary
Today everybody permits himself the expression of his wish and his dearest thought; hence I, too, shall say what it is that I wish from myself today, and what was the first thought to run across my heart this year – what thought shall be for me the reason, warranty, and sweetness of my life henceforth. I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer.
NietzscheHow are we to respond to the brutal fact that the world is torn by wrong-doing both personal and political? I submit that forgiveness and apology are indispensable. My account of forgiveness and political apology is set against the broad canvas of the ineliminable imperfection of human life and the desirability of reconciliation. I have argued that they respond to that context with varying degrees of success, in a way meaningfully contrasted with several other classical as well as modern responses that I characterized as “perfectionist.”
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- ForgivenessA Philosophical Exploration, pp. 211 - 214Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007