The transcendence of the person in forgiveness. The perspective of relational sociology

Artur Wysocki

doi:10.21852/sem.2017.4.07

Published: 2022-11-22

Vol. 38 No. 4 (2017)

The transcendence of the person in forgiveness. The perspective of relational sociology

Artur Wysocki

Seminare. Learned Investigations

Section: Socio-pedagogical sciences

https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2017.4.07

Abstract

The paper is focused on a very important aspect of building society and relationality, that is, forgiveness. This issue is quite often treated from the psychological, philosophical or theological perspectives, but it is still not sufficiently worked out in social sciences. Actually, it is also my point that no social theory should avoid this question, as it plays such an important role in social relations. As I will try to demonstrate, forgiveness has a special corrective character in human relationships as well as in building society and shaping human personality. The dynamics of forgiveness with its morphogenetic process, in a special way, transforms a person and his relations.

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forgiveness, transcendence of the person, social forgiveness, relational sociology, human relations

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Wysocki , A. (2022). The transcendence of the person in forgiveness. The perspective of relational sociology . Seminare. Learned Investigations, 38(4), 83–93. https://doi.org/10.21852/sem.2017.4.07

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