MEANINGS OF FORGIVENESS IN UNIVERSAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE
MEANINGS OF FORGIVENESS IN UNIVERSAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE

Summary/Abstract: The objective of the study was to investigate the topic of forgiveness, conceptualized as a personality trait and understood from several perspectives. In a wealth of meanings commonly found in universal scientific discourse, the religious and psychological approaches to forgiveness could be revealed, making the understanding of this mechanism more comprehensive. More than that, we can assume a complementary view of forgiveness, initially perceived as a religious ritual, where people wished to receive forgiveness from the deity, and then by extending the concept to the interpersonal level, where people manifested a need for mutual forgiveness for aggressions suffered. The latter approach shifted the idea of forgiveness from a divine concept to one present at the psychological level, which allowed the identification of several models, dimensions and measurement tools of forgiveness. Not least, the paper aimed to glimpse the explanatory factors of forgiveness present in the psychological narrative. In this regard, it seems that loneliness, machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy and perfectionism play an important role in explaining forgiveness as a personality structure.

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