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Blame, deserved guilt, and harms to standing
Stockholm University, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Philosophy.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3112-0673
2022 (English)In: Self-Blame and Moral Responsibility / [ed] Andreas Brekke Carlsson, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022, p. 198-216Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Central cases of moral blame suggest that blame presupposes that its target deserves to feel guilty, and that if one is blameworthy to some degree, one deserves to feel guilt to a corresponding degree. This, some think, is what explains why being blameworthy for something presupposes having had a strong kind of control over it: only given such control is the suffering involved in feeling guilt deserved. This chapter argues that all this is wrong. As evidenced by a wider range of cases, blame doesn’t presuppose that the target deserves to feel guilt and doesn’t necessarily aim at the target’s suffering in recognition of what they have done. On the constructive side, the chapter offers an explanation of why, in many cases of moral blameworthiness, the agent nevertheless does deserve to feel guilt. The explanation leans on a general account of moral and non-moral blame and blameworthiness and a version of the popular idea that moral blame targets agents’ objectionable quality of will. Given the latter idea, the morally blameworthy have harmed the standing of some person or value, giving rise to obligations to give correspondingly less relative weight to their own standing, and so, sometimes, to their own suffering.

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Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. p. 198-216
Keywords [en]
blame, blameworthiness, guilt, suffering, desert, quality of will, standing
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Philosophy
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-233801DOI: 10.1017/9781009179263.011ISBN: 9781009179263 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-233801DiVA, id: diva2:1901115
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Swedish Research Council, 2015-01488Available from: 2024-09-26 Created: 2024-09-26 Last updated: 2024-09-26Bibliographically approved

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