{"id":4496,"date":"2009-02-13T11:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T15:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/2009\/02\/13\/discoveries-lecture-focuses-on-forgiveness\/"},"modified":"2016-10-05T16:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T20:01:24","slug":"discoveries-lecture-focuses-on-forgiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/discoveries-lecture-focuses-on-forgiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Discoveries&#8217; Lecture Focuses on Forgiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CAS Alumni Relations Office hosted a Discoveries lecture, &ldquo;Forgiveness: In War, Peace, Ordinary Times, and Extraordinary Circumstances,&rdquo; on December 11. Philosophy Professor Charles Griswold, the guest speaker, explored the nature of forgiveness in different circumstances. His lecture was drawn from his book, <em>Forgiveness: A Philosophical Exploration,<\/em> published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.<br \/>\nGriswold explains that his fascination with the search for a flexible, yet principled, way for individuals to approach both giving and receiving forgiveness led to his work on the subject. &ldquo;Forgiveness is a topic&mdash;a problem&mdash;that confronts us all, and from both ends: we have all done wrong, and we have all suffered it,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;How to respond in a way that is principled, ethical, healing? These sorts of questions impressed themselves on me as I pondered what it would mean to work out an ethics that is non-perfectionist and yet true to the ethical fundamentals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>While designed for CAS alumni, the Discoveries lectures are open to the BU community. The next lecture in the series will take place on February 5 at 7 p.m. in the Trustee Ballroom, One Silber Way. Professor of Sociology and International Relations Susan Eckstein and Assistant Dean of Students Daryl DeLuca will take a look back at &ldquo;The Cuban Revolution at 50.&rdquo; Two more lectures are planned for the spring: &ldquo;The Bailout Six Months Later&rdquo; on April 16 and &ldquo;The Road to Sloogle: Gesture-Based Computer Search Tools for American Sign Language&rdquo; on May 14. All lectures are followed by a light reception, and admission is typically $15. For further information, contact <a href=\"mailto:ipr@bu.edu\">casalum@bu.edu <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy Professor Charles Griswold, the guest speaker, explored the nature of forgiveness in different circumstances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,195],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20793,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4496\/revisions\/20793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}