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This 4 page paper discusses the idea that for confession to be meaningful there has to be self knowledge. This is undertaken in the context of James Hogg’s book; The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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that the confessor needs to understand themselves making the confession more personal. The term confession is the telling of past and is defined as " especially disclosure of ones sins
to a priest for absolution..... A written or oral statement acknowledging guilt, made by one who has been accused or charged with an offense" (Dictionary.com, 2004). In these there is
the need to acknowledge guilt and responsibility. It is the psychological aspect of the sin and the confession that self knowledge will benefit, as seen with book The Private Memoirs
and Confessions of a Justified Sinner along with the way that confession is made to actions, but to which no guilt is really accepted. This may be argued as being
a justification and not a confession if knowledge of the self is required. This was first published in 1824 anonymously. The
book is the account of Robert Wringhims confession, and is a psychological study into the way the idea of predestination and the role of evil and the way in
which there is a need to balance life, with the difficulty of balancing money against morality. The second part of the book is the actual confession, which turns out
to be a confession to murder and many other misdeeds. This idea of knowledge is an interesting concept, whilst although we are told of all the sins committed, there is
also a lack of acceptance of blame, with all actions justified and the confession is as much a documented excuse to explain why horrendous acts where committed as much as
a confession. The arguments he puts forward include having no knowledge of the crimes omitted and another, Satan, taking control of his body. The questions here may have much
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