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

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20510679
AutoresBenjamin Vilhauer (0000-0001-5692-3945, The Graduate Center, CUNY, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen29
Número3
Páginas447-466
Fecha de publicación2024-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaKantian Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-4154 • E-ISSN: 2044-2394
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1369415424000372
OpenAlexW4403137000
IdiomaEN
Referencias 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