Before forgiveness: the origins of a moral idea
Auteur :
Konstan, David
Éditeur :
Cambridge University Press
ISBN :
9780521199407
Date de publication :
9 août 2010
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,7 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
400 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.