O PERDÃO: A ABORDAGEM DE GIRARD E OS BENEFÍCIOS EXISTENCIAIS DE UMA NOVA VISÃO DE PERDOAR

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Daniel Alves dos
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/219
• topic: Girard, perdão, desejo mimético, Cruz, novum; Girard, forgiveness, mimetic desire, Cross, novum; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS

In his theory of mimetic desire, René Girard presents Christ as an ideal to be followed since Jesus has demonstrated how is it possible to solve conflicts without associating it to vengeance of violence. Through his victimization on the Cross, Jesus reveals the truth about whom we are and who the Lord is. By demonstrating his innocence, He reverts to himself the accusation of those keeping themselves on the circle of self-justification by transfer of guilt. Thereby, the Christ decides to forgive by his own will. This is a new form of forgiveness that is called Novum.The Novum reveals a new way to bond with people who have wronged us and to try to understand ourselves through the other. This new mimesis values life, freedom, and care for the neighbor, the reconciliation more than gifts and sacrifices. This is dialectical overcoming because in this process the decision of forgiving belongs to the subject and the decision of reconciliation also depends on the one that was offended.Through the novum it is possible to change the direction of the past, destroy fatality and not to continue being a hostage of guilt. This attitude allows the subject to look to the future with hope. Focusing on the Passion and the Resurrection the subject finds who he really is and will be able to decide to pursue the Christ centric model. This decision takes him off the violent mimesis to start to elaborate the will to decide to forgive the one that has offended him. Finally, the subject recognizes the novum forgiveness as a model that when is imitated and donated is capable of remaking the one forgiving as well as the one that is forgiven.