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Feeling Responsible: On Regret for Others' Harms.
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Philosophy . Apr2024, Vol. 99 Issue 2, p247-271. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper investigates the moral emotion of being socially, but non-agentially connected to a harm. I propose understanding the emotion of an affiliated onlooker as a species of regret called 'social-regret'. Breaking from existing guilt- and shame-based accounts, I argue that social-regret can be a fitting, expressive, and revelatory reactive attitude that opens the way for deliberation over accountability for others' harms. When we feel social-regret, our attention is directed towards the moral salience of our social relations and the expectations that undergird them, as well as possibilities for ameliorative action. I consider several existing accounts of affiliated onlookers' emotions (including embarrassment, guilt, and shame), and I highlight the advantages of supplementing these with a regret-based account. Social-regret provides a novel way to understand negative, self-directed emotions in response to others' harms as rational, expressive, and potentially reason-giving experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *EMBARRASSMENT
*EMOTIONS
*PSYCHOLOGY
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00318191
- Volume :
- 99
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Philosophy
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 176075026
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S0031819124000020