Name: Lucas Fraga Gomes
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 27/06/2019
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Jorge Luiz Viesenteiner | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Antônio Edmilson Paschoal | External Examiner * |
| Jorge Luiz Viesenteiner | Advisor * |
| Rafael Haddock Lobo | External Examiner * |
Summary: This dissertation aims to relate the Nietzschean notion of moral self-suppression,
especially the self-suppression of justice, with Derrida's theoretical construction of
forgiveness from the late 1990's. We argue that when Nietzsche demonstrates the
process of self-suppression of justice in which it is called grace (Gnade) we can
speak of forgiveness in an extramoral sense, that is, as pathos. Derrida's treatment
of forgiveness can be understood in the same way, for, by "defining it" as an event
and therefore unpredictable and breaking with any calculation and strategy,
forgiveness is irreducible to any conceptualization, allowing us to state that we are
also in the pathos regime.
Keywords: Forgiveness; Grace; Self-suppression; Differentiation.
