CONTEMPORARY FORGIVENESS AND RETURN TO THE SPIRITUAL DIMENSION. FROM THE GREATEST CRIMES TO THE INFINITY OF FORGIVENESS

Abstract

The contemporary era is characterized with increasing economical, technological and cultural development: but, at the same time there are ideologies by the defenders of dehumanizing totalitarianism that cause deaths of millions. There are thinkers who are asking for the possibility of pardon, others deny it forthrightly, like the case of Jankélévitch: while others like Derrida, Levinas, Rioeur and Boltansky, talk about the possibility and the necessity of pardon from the spirituality of love that heals and cures the wounded memory.