Kant on Remorse, Conversion, and the Descent into the Hell of Self-Cognition

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ID20510679
AutoresBenjamin Vilhauer (0000-0001-5692-3945, The Graduate Center, CUNY, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume29
Fascículo3
Páginas447-466
Data de publicação2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoKantian Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-4154 • E-ISSN: 2044-2394
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1369415424000372
OpenAlexW4403137000
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas20

Kant’s conception of remorse has received little discussion in the literature. I argue that he thinks we ought to experience remorse for both retributivist and forward-looking reasons. This account casts helpful light on his ideas of conversion and the descent into the hell of self-cognition. But while he prescribes a heartbreakingly painful experience of remorse, he acknowledges that excess remorse can threaten rational agency through distraction and suicide, and this raises questions about whether actual human beings ought to cultivate their consciences in such a way as to experience remorse in the way he conceives it

Cognition · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Remorse · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification