Shame and Blame
The Self through Time and Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9690357 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jennifer Radden (0000-0001-8640-0264, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-74 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Dialogue (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0012217300049301 |
| OpenAlex | W2057345039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
Do our customary notions of shame, blame and guilt require us to adopt a particular view of the self's singularity and invariance through time? Consider the intriguing case of John Demjanjuk, tried in Israel during 1987 and 1988 for the crimes of “Ivan the Terrible,” a concentration camp guard at Treblinka in Poland, during 1942–43. John Demjanjuk, a retired factory worker living in Cleveland, Ohio, appeared banal at his trial—old, quiet, ordinary and helpless; descriptions from survivors of Treblinka cast Ivan as monstrous in his vigorous brutality. Should John be found guilty and punished for Ivan's crimes? This question takes us beyond any answers sought at the trial. Even if the spatio-temporal identity of the later John and earlier Ivan had been established conclusively, still the justice of punishing the later man for the earlier one's crimes may be questioned. For a philosophical puzzle of personal identity lingers: is the later John the same person as the earlier Ivan? In cases such as this the passage of time and radical changes of character and personality seem to invite the notion that one self or person has succeeded another in the same body. If this were so, would—or should—culpability transfer undiminished from one self to another
Aesthetics · Blame · Criminology · Culpability · Identity (music) · Psychoanalysis · Punishment (psychology) · Shame · Sociology · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology · Social Psychology
The Identities of persons
Pride, shame, and guilt
The principles of psychology.
Marx and Methodological Individualism
Responsibility, Character, and the Emotions
Problems of the Self
Planning for Mental Disorder
Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
Reasons and Persons
Connections and Guilt
Marx and Methodological Individualism
The Self and the Future
Involuntary Sins
Scheffler on Morality and Ideals of the Person
Ethics, Personal Identity, and Ideals of the Person
The principles of psychology
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2006 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |