Tragic-Remorse–The Anguish of Dirty Hands

This paper outlines and defends a notion of ‘tragic-remorse’. This moral emotion properly accompanies those actions that involve unavoidable moral wrongdoing in general and dirty hands scenarios in particular. Tragic-remorse differs both phenomenologically and conceptually from regret, agent-regret...

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Main Author: De Wijze, Stephen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2005
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2005, Volume: 7, Issue: 5, Pages: 453-471
Further subjects:B Regret
B Remorse
B Moral emotions
B Dirty Hands
B tragic-remorse
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