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<journal-id>0188-6649</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Tópicos (México)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Tópicos (México)]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0188-6649</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Panamericana, Facultad de Filosofía]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0188-66492023000300283</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.21555/top.v670.2369</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[El pedido del perdón. Una propuesta para resolver una aporía en Hannah Arendt sobre el perdón y la banalidad del mal]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Asking For Forgiveness. A Proposed Solution for an Aporia in Hannah Arendt on Forgiveness and the Banality of Evil]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Arteaga Gallinal]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Santiago de]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Chile</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2023</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2023</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>67</numero>
<fpage>283</fpage>
<lpage>305</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0188-66492023000300283&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0188-66492023000300283&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0188-66492023000300283&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen. El artículo propone una resolución a una aporía presente en el pensamiento de Hannah Arendt a propósito de la banalidad del mal y el perdón. La banalidad del mal implica una renuncia del agente a pensar, una despersonalización, de tal modo que no se puede sostener, en rigor, que haya persona: no hay un quién en la acción. El problema es que, para Arendt, el sentido mismo del perdón estriba en que se dirige a la redención de la persona de su pasado. Por tanto, la aporía de la banalidad y del perdón es que no hay a quién perdonar. La condición estructural-fenomenológica que permite el aparecer de la persona es el pedir perdón, en la medida en que solo el pedido da cuenta de la reconstitución de la persona en el pensar y la devuelve al espacio del aparecer que posibilita el emerger del perdón.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract. The article offers a solution to an aporia present in Hannah Arendt concerning the banality of evil and forgiveness. The banality of evil implies the abandonment of thought by an agent and the negation of personhood; thus, it can be stated that, in fact, there is nobody to be found in a particular action. The problem is that, for Arendt, the meaning of forgiveness is that it is directed at the redemption of the person from her past. Then, the aporia of the banality of evil and forgiveness is that there is nobody to forgive. The structural-phenomenological condition for the appearance of the person is the request for forgiveness, for it is only this that manifests the reconstitution of the person through thought and reopens the space of appearance that makes the emergence of forgiveness possible.]]></p></abstract>
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