本文是雅克·德里达教授 2 0 0 1年 9月 4日在北京大学的学术演讲。演讲时因时间关系做了删节 ,此次发表的是原稿全文。和德里达近十年来对“权利”、“公正”、“死亡”、“友谊”、“好客”等问题的哲学思考一样 ,本文对“宽恕”的概念进行了解构。他的解构的理论分析说明了“宽恕”只是在“不可宽恕”存在时才有可能设想。在司法中 ,时效性也就设定了“不受时效约束”的罪行。而哲学描述的是一个开放而又脆弱的世界。“宽恕”在这个世界里可以找到自己的位置 ,但它却知道其实什么都没有被抹消。“宽恕”说到底就是做“不可能”之事。 This article is a speech delivered by Professor Jacques Derrida at Peking University on September 4, 2001. The speech was abridged because of the time, this is the full text of the manuscript. Like Derrida’s philosophical thinking on the issues of “right,” “fairness,” “death,” “friendship,” and “hospitality” in the past decade, this article deconstructs the concept of “forgiveness.” His theoretical analysis of deconstruction shows that “forgiveness” is only conceivable when “unforgivable” exists. In the judiciary, timeliness also sets the crime of “being free from time constraints.” Philosophy, on the other hand, describes an open and fragile world. “Forgiveness” can find its place in this world, but it knows that nothing has actually been erased. “Forgiveness” in the final analysis is to do “impossible.”