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Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes
When is it fitting for an agent to feel guilt over an outcome, and for others to be morally indignant with her over it? A popular answer requires that the outcome happened because of the agent, or that the agent was a cause of the outcome. This paper reviews some of what makes this causal-explanator...
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description | When is it fitting for an agent to feel guilt over an outcome, and for others to be morally indignant with her over it? A popular answer requires that the outcome happened because of the agent, or that the agent was a cause of the outcome. This paper reviews some of what makes this causal-explanatory view attractive before turning to two kinds of problem cases: cases of collective harms and cases of fungible switching. These, it is argued, motivate a related but importantly different answer. What is required for fitting guilt and indignation is that the agent is relevantly implicated in that outcome: that the agent’s morally substandard responsiveness to reasons, or substandard caring, is relevantly involved in a normal explanation of it. This answer, it is further argued, makes sense because when an agent’s substandard caring is so involved, the outcome provides a lesson against such caring, a lesson central to the function of guilt and indignation. |
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spelling | pubmed-79281802021-03-04 Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes Björnsson, Gunnar Philos Stud Article When is it fitting for an agent to feel guilt over an outcome, and for others to be morally indignant with her over it? A popular answer requires that the outcome happened because of the agent, or that the agent was a cause of the outcome. This paper reviews some of what makes this causal-explanatory view attractive before turning to two kinds of problem cases: cases of collective harms and cases of fungible switching. These, it is argued, motivate a related but importantly different answer. What is required for fitting guilt and indignation is that the agent is relevantly implicated in that outcome: that the agent’s morally substandard responsiveness to reasons, or substandard caring, is relevantly involved in a normal explanation of it. This answer, it is further argued, makes sense because when an agent’s substandard caring is so involved, the outcome provides a lesson against such caring, a lesson central to the function of guilt and indignation. Springer Netherlands 2021-03-03 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7928180/ /pubmed/33686312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01613-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
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title | Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes |
title_full | Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes |
title_fullStr | Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes |
title_full_unstemmed | Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes |
title_short | Being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes |
title_sort | being implicated: on the fittingness of guilt and indignation over outcomes |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7928180/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33686312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11098-021-01613-4 |
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