Non-obligatory Forgiveness: Supererogatory or Impermissible?

Forgiveness and Reconciliation: Paradise Lost or Pragmatism?

“Amongst men, forgiveness can only mean: to give up vengeance, to keep quiet and do as if nothing happened, which means: to walk away by principle, while vengeance will always remain with the other and does not put an end to the relationship. ... Reconciliation, on the other hand, originates in the acceptance of what befalls us. ... Whoever reconciles with the other just accepts to carry on his...

Debt Forgiveness: Dangerous Trend or Absolute Necessity

DynaFace: Discrimination between Obligatory and Non-obligatory Protein-Protein Interactions Based on the Complex’s Dynamics

Protein-protein interfaces have been evolutionarily-designed to enable transduction between the interacting proteins. Thus, we hypothesize that analysis of the dynamics of the complex can reveal details about the nature of the interaction, and in particular whether it is obligatory, i.e., persists throughout the entire lifetime of the proteins, or not. Indeed, normal mode analysis, using the Ga...

Does activating justice help or hurt in promoting forgiveness?

Do justice values promote or obstruct forgiveness? This question has received virtually no empirical attention, even though past theorizing suggest two different answers. The literature on forgiveness suggests that justice constitutes a barrier to forgiveness, suggesting that the activation of justice values should decrease the probability of forgiveness. Conversely, the literature on justice a...

Evidence-based medicine: ethically obligatory or ethically suspect?

I n the pages of Evidence-Based Mental Health and elsewhere, authors have argued that it is ethically obligatory to practice evidence-based medicine (EBM). 1–3 The argument in favour of this position begins with the assumption that EBM is more able than other strategies to provide us with accurate information about the effectiveness of medical interventions. Accurate information is essential to...