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This article offers a philosophical and political reflection on the concepts of forgiveness and promise, understood as the only paths that allow victims and perpetrators to coexist and confront the aftermath of irreparable acts within the realm of human affairs. Drawing from Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, forgiveness is interpreted as the action that redeems human beings from the irreversibility of their deeds, while promise is seen as the mechanism that mitigates the consequences of action, providing stability within the plurality of public life.
