Browsing by Subject "Forgiveness"
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Confessing guilt in the context of climate change: Some South African perspectives
(Stellenbosch University, 2010)This contribution explores the significance but also the immense complexities of Christian discourse on confessing guilt within the context of climate change. It draws especially on South African discourse on confessing ... -
On crime and punishment: Derrida reading Kant
(Springer Nature, 2019)This essay enquires into the implications for criminal law of Derrida’s analysis in the Death Penalty seminars. The seminars include a reading of Kant’s Metaphysics of Morals, specifcally Kant’s refections on the sovereign ... -
'This thing called reconciliation…' Forgiveness as part of an interconnectedness-towards-wholeness
(Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, 2008)Regular reference is made, within the discourse around the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, to the fact that ubuntu, an indigenous world view, played a role in the process. This paper tries to show that ...