Forgiveness and Reconciliation
Ubuntu emphasizes forgiveness as essential to community healing. Holding grudges poisons both the individual and social harmony.
Ubuntu emphasizes forgiveness as essential to community healing. Holding grudges poisons both the individual and social harmony.
Forgiveness is not pretending the wrong didn't happen. It is refusing to let it destroy you or your community.
Ubuntu Ethics
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- What African wisdom says about forgiveness
The definition is narrow and worth holding to: forgiveness is not pretending the wrong did not happen, it is refusing to let the wrong destroy you or your community. Nothing here asks you to revise your account of what occurred.