Regret, Remorse and the Twilight Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8079775 |
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| Authors | Christopher Cowley (0000-0002-1193-826X, School of Philosophy, University College, Dublin, Ireland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 624-634 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-06 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Philosophical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-2559 • E-ISSN: 1466-4542 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09672559.2017.1381410 |
| OpenAlex | W2762344608 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
I examine the ‘momentous’ choices that one makes early in life – about career or spouse, for example – and I ask what it means to regret such choices at the end of one’s life (in one’s twilight). I argue that such regrets are almost meaningless because of the difficulty of imaginatively accessing a much earlier self. I then contrast long-term regret to remorse, and argue that the two are qualitatively different experiences because remorse involves another person as victim
Art · Astronomy · Epistemology · Perspective (graphical · Physics · Regret · Remorse · Twilight · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Forgiveness and Related Behaviors · Mathematics · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Psychology · Philosophy · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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