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- Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility
- Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Nature of Self-Blame
- Part II The Ethics of Self-Blame
- Chapter 5 How Much to Blame?
- Chapter 6 Don’t Suffer in Silence
- Chapter 7 How Should We Feel about Recalcitrant Emotions?
- Part III Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility
- References
- Index
Chapter 6 - Don’t Suffer in Silence
A Self-Help Guide for Self-Blame
from Part II - The Ethics of Self-Blame
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2022
- Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility
- Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The Nature of Self-Blame
- Part II The Ethics of Self-Blame
- Chapter 5 How Much to Blame?
- Chapter 6 Don’t Suffer in Silence
- Chapter 7 How Should We Feel about Recalcitrant Emotions?
- Part III Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility
- References
- Index
Summary
There are better and worse ways to blame others. Likewise, there are better and worse ways to blame yourself. And though there is an ever-expanding literature on the norms that govern our blaming practices, relatively little attention has been paid to the norms that govern expressions of self-blame. In this chapter, I argue that when we blame ourselves, we ought not do so privately. Rather, we should, ceteris paribus, express our self-blame to those we have wronged. I then explore how this norm can contribute to our understanding of the ethics of self-blame as well as the nature of blameworthiness itself.
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- Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility , pp. 117 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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