La muerte como órgano-obstáculo del perdón en Vladimir Jankélévitch

The need to think forgiveness is a commitment today that embraces different areas: political, legal, ethical and religious, among others. This need to think forgiveness and put it at the center of national and international debates corresponds to the need to restore a social space for the perpetrators, ostensibly to transform their existence and of course, to improve the living conditions of society in general. However, instead of investigating forgiveness in the juridical, legal or religious order, this article analyzes the existential obstacle of forgiveness. Starting with the supposition that on the human plane men have limitations, which on occasion are of a structural nature and therefore, humans are attached to them, sometimes even in an irremediable manner, it is argued herein that there is a certain impossibility for forgiveness to emerge in cases of extreme violence. This impossibility is imbricated in what Jankélévitch calls the organ-obstacle concept that he took from Bergson and that encloses the tragic tone of the limits of the human and in particular, of forgiveness in cases where the hápax and consequently, the ipséité are annihilated.