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Perdón y vida pública
Author(s) -
Daniel R. Esparza,
Míriam Díez Bosch
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
daimon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.108
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 1989-4651
pISSN - 1130-0507
DOI - 10.6018/daimon.362991
Subject(s) - forgiveness , philosophy , greeks , humanities , power (physics) , theology , classics , history , physics , quantum mechanics
En la sección titulada Irreversibilidad y el Poder de Perdonar en La Condición Humana, Arendt afirma que “el descubridor del papel del perdón en la esfera de los asuntos humanos fue Jesús de Nazaret”. En lo que sigue, quisiéramos aproximarnos al uso antiguo del verbo griego sungignôskô (“considerar”) que a nuestro entender cumple el mismo papel que Arendt advierte en esta supuesta novedad cristiana —la “mutua exoneración de lo que se ha hecho”—, no sólo para entender en qué consistiría el descubrimiento que Arendt atribuye a Jesús, sino porque creemos que la idea de que los griegos desconocían la facultad de perdonar es, si no falsa, al menos imprecisa. In the section titled Irreversibility and the Power to Forgive in the Human Condition, Arendt claims that “the discoverer of the role of forgiveness in the sphere of human affairs was Jesus of Nazareth”. In what follows, we would like to approach the ancient use of the Greek verb sungignôskô (“to consider”) which, in our opinion, fulfills the same role that Arendt finds in this alleged Christian novelty —the “mutual exoneration of what has been done”— not only to understand what would the actual discovery Arendt attributes to Jesus imply, but because we believe claiming the Greeks were unaware of the faculty of forgiveness is, if not false, at least inaccurate.

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