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repentance


Subject Philosophy

People Hobbes, Thomas

Key-Topics repentence

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631192626.2005.x


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Repentance is being glad of returning to the right way of doing things after having felt sad about having done something bad. For Hobbes, writing in the context of his debate with Bishop Bramhall about free will, there is nothing odd about feeling sad for something that was necessarily done, and nothing odd about feeling glad about doing what is right even if one had to do it: “So that the necessity of the actions takes away neither of those parts of repentance, grief for the error, and joy for returning” ( LN , p. 257). ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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A Hobbes Dictionary



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