Debates over reconciliation, atonement, forgiveness, and forgetting involve political and personal elements, with substantial investments and commitments. I contrast two perspectives: one stresses unconditional forgiveness independent of atonement; the other reflects on the importance of moral responsibility for the formation of the person. Being held accountable, for Ricoeur, matters for the development of the self. For Derrida, forgiveness is a defining aspect of being human, becoming debased when seen as a legal form of justice. I use philosophical arguments and ethnographic writings from Papua New Guinea, Cyprus, and the Holocaust to examine reconciliation and irreconciliation as strategies for either reaffirming or reimagining a common world.

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被追究责任：为什么责任归属很重要

关于和解、赎罪、宽恕和遗忘的辩论涉及政治和个人因素，需要大量投资和承诺。我对比两种观点：一种强调与赎罪无关的无条件宽恕；另一个反映了道德责任对人的形成的重要性。对利科来说，被追究责任对自我的发展很重要。对于德里达来说，宽恕是人类的一个决定性方面，当被视为一种法律形式的正义时，它就会变得堕落。我使用来自巴布亚新几内亚、塞浦路斯和大屠杀的哲学论点和民族志著作来检验和解与不和解作为重申或重新构想一个共同世界的策略。