On Regret and Forgiveness: Reply to Ricardo Gibu

Abstract

Received: 3/12/2015 • Accepted: 27/01/2016Along the following lines, we will make some considerations on Scheler’s position on regret and forgiveness as a manner to reply the paper issued by Ricardo Gibu: “On Regret and Forgiveness”. Mainly, my aim to show that, on the contrary of what Gibu claims, Scheler, indeed, approaches the psychic phenomenon of resentment to its religious source, and the philosophical to the theological thought, thus presenting a self-sufficient solution that doesn’t require the complement of another author, as Gibu states while calling Guardini to complete, despite its comparative value. To achieve this, we propose the review of the phenomenologist’s major works, in order to sustain the thesis that conceives the resentment as a protest against the love of God, whose roots dwell in the disruption of the eternal order of the human consciousness, as well as its effective apprehension and its accomplishment in life.