Survivor guilt.
We often feel survivor guilt when the very circumstances that harm others leave us unscathed. Although survivor guilt is both commonplace and intelligible, it raises a puzzle for the standard philosophical account of guilt, according to which people feel guilt only when they take themselves to be mo...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 180; no. 9; pp. 2707 - 2727 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2023
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