Forgiveness — a generous gift or social pressure disguised as a virtue?
You often hear that forgiveness is the key to healing and moving on — but is it always the right thing to do? This conversation explores how forgiveness is something far more complex than a simple act of letting go. Is it a generous moral gift, or a burden placed on those who've been wronged? What really happens when we forgive? And is sometimes withholding forgiveness the more honest response?
2025 Anderson Fellows Lecture — Forgiveness: Do We Really Need it? presented by the University of Sydney
Speakers
Lucy AllaisProfessor of Philosophy at both the University of the Witwatersrand and…
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