Forgiveness, why it is not meant for the weak? | Ethics 101
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- What does it really mean to forgive? This video uncovers the complexities of forgiveness and shows how this virtue can lead to profound personal transformation.
Highlights:
Examine forgiveness as a moral virtue and a courageous act.
Learn how to balance forgiveness between vengeance and naive leniency.
Discover the conditions necessary for meaningful forgiveness.
Learn from real-life examples and philosophical insights.
Would like to hear your experiences with Forgiveness and the challenges involved in forgiving.
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00:12 - Introduction: 1994 Rwanda Gacaca Courts.
01:39 - What We'll Cover In This Video.
2:10 - Definitions of 'Forgiveness.': Common Meaning.
03:22 - Jeffrie Murphy's Definition of Forgiveness.
03:54 - Joanna North's Definition of Forgiveness.
04:40 - Forgiveness As A virtue: Buddhism.
05:01 - Forgiveness As A Virtue: Aristotlian Ethics.
06:46 - Conditions To Forgive Someone.
07:13 - 1st Condition: Acknowledgement.
08:00 -2nd Condition: Offender Should Feel Repentance.
08:35 - 3rd Condition: The Forgiveness Is Voluntary & Not Coerced.
08:59 - 4th & Optional Condition: Possibility of Reconciliation.
09:24 - Mahatma Gandhi's Quote on Forgiveness- Does forgiveness take strength/Courage?
09:56 - Characteristics of Courage in Forgiveness #1: Facing The Pain.
10:29 - Characteristics of Courage in Forgiveness #2: Letting Go of Resentment.
10:49 - Characteristics of Courage in Forgiveness #3: Risking Vulnerability.
12:22 - Characteristics of Courage in Forgiveness #4: Forgiving In Public.
12:48 - Forgiveness's Impact on Mental Health.
13:20 - Conclusion: Rwanda -- Immaculée Ilibagiza.
14:32 - Bonus: Structure For Answering Mahatma Gandhi's Quotation.
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Forgiveness can't be virtue sometimes, it's better to forget
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Intro...
Forgiveness - "The interpersonal virtue"
In which an individual overcomes the feeling of anger and resentment with reconciliation at front.
Body..
[Attribute of strong - Defines COURAGE]~ Heading
* It takes courage to forgive in face of public opinion.
For eg: Eva Mozes kor (victim of Holocaust)- Publicly forgiven the Nazis and Adolf Hitler
* It demands immense strength to face the pain.
* The feeling of bearing the offender as the one with whom to reconcile with is most threatening and filled with valour.
For eg:- GACACA COURTS in Rawanda - "reconciliation initiative at top . "
* It is risking the vulnerability means individual become strong enough to behold inner self with more audacity.
Conclusion
Thus forgiveness liberates one from ills of anger, pain, vengeance and paves the way for reconciliation and heals mental health thereby makes a gallantry being.
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Actually nice one 🎉, but i think instead of forgiving wrongdoer for the cognigence crime, isn't this acknowledge us as the coward, or insted of giving the punishment to him we are making us more vulnerable again to face the same as prithviraj chauhan forgive mahmud gauri then we all know what he has done to prithviraj and with india, what if he didn't forgive gauri the entire history of india will change. So its very important to find the intention of wrongdoer if his remorse is fake or real. And never reconcile with them. Forgiveness is the another name of cowardness, if you are not able to take resentment.
Hmm…thanks for the perspective…forgiveness as a virtue needs to be practiced wisely. Forgiveness is a virtue that needs a liberal dose of wisdom as one needs to understand whom we are forgiving, their intentions, their remorse, the action that one intends to forgive…
That's why it's advised to be forgiving not to be forgetting... If prithivi raj had not done the later then the result of 1192CE would have been different.
@@satyamgupta3578so the whole point is that protest of doctors in Kolkata is not virtuous. They should have forgive him and let thing go?
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@@ethics101 Sir i think one can forgive… let go the resentment and then be cautious of the one’s own action so that one doesn’t become vulnerable that anyone can wrong us( ideal case). Like this one will be at peace and be secure too !
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Wonderful session sir. How to handle the risk of vulnerability?
@@hemavathisrinivasan6593 when you forgive you become vulnerable to another hurtful action, the only way handle the risk of vulnerability is to be careful whom you are forgiving, they must deserve your forgiveness and further the repentance has to be there. This is way you ensure that they are sincere in seeking forgiveness and it is the sincerity that ensures that they don’t prey on your vulnerability.
What should one do about the inherent anger that comes with being wronged? The anger hinders forgiveness process.
True, getting over that anger and the negative feeling needs courage and patience. The anger or to be accurate the resentment dilutes with time. The negative feeling associated with the harm depends on number of factors: the nature of harm, intensity of injury, the degree of emotional scar. Therefore, the process of getting rid of anger differs from individual to individual and also the emotional resilience of the victim also matters.
Coming to what should one do, to start with one must stop nurturing the anger, the more one nurses it, the more difficult it becomes to get over it.
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sir can you please provide PPT/PDF of the video as well.
Let me think about it
Forgiveness for Gandhi was strength for only the stong could forgive, not the weak. Revenge and an eye for an eye can make the whole world blind
Be it mandela who forgave colonial apartheid, or be it milkha singh forgiving partition violence . Ot is about finding peace within oneself rather than making it about the perpetrators. Ashoka forgave himself after kalinga.
Forgiveness doesn't mean you forget, remember the lesson for it makes you wise in life. Exercise it cautiously, a rapist cant be forgiven by collective conscience of society. Nor do a terrorist . Forgiveness must be contexual.
Thanks, like the phrase “exercise it cautiously”
Will you really forgive a person who murders your entire family sir in reality? Where what you have constructed for years has been devastated by minutes or seconds
Im curious to your response since we had been taught of forgiveness by you sir.
Im not seeking a response to be written in some paper but for real.
I will be glad to know your response
Hi, there are certain things one needs to consider while forgiving.
= to forgive or not to forgive is a personal decision, therefore it is the victim’s call whether to forgive or not
= the perpetrator must be regretful and must repent for the action
= forgiveness must be deserved
Coming to your question about forgiving in reality, we have had instances where individuals have forgiven grievous harms.
@@ethics101 okay sir, now that i understood your reasoning in forgiveness from one's point of view.
What will be your action when you are put in the above situation? Will you or will you not forgive sir?
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Sir are conditions neccessary ? Becz forgiving is more of a personal decision and doesn’t depend on what the offender does ?
Eg > th-cam.com/video/6Z-hvklEcD8/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Yes, forgiveness is a personal decision. Some may forgive unconditionally but others may not. That’s why if certain conditions are met people may think of practicing forgiveness
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Sir, can we quote Rahul Gandhi's Speech that he acknowledges the wrong doing of his Grandmother's Emergency Provision.
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Sure, you can. Thanks for watching
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