What Does It Actually Mean to Forgive?

What Does It Actually Mean to Forgive?

We all use the word forgiveness. Yet, what if I told you that a research study found that a majority of people who were asked what forgiveness is actually misunderstood it? When Plato began his dialogues based on Socrates’s wisdom, he often started with the question, “What is it?” What does the concept at the heart of this dialogue actually mean? Aquinas, the medieval philosopher, famously stated that a minor mistake at the start of an inquiry c…