Responsibility for others' emotions

Recent philosophical work on responsibility for emotion has tended to focus on what responsibility we can have for our own emotions. Folk psychology suggests we can also be responsible for others’ emotions, and they for ours, and that this can be reason for praise or blame . However, many branches o...

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Main Author: Sophie Rietti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Rijeka. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences 2006-01-01
Series:European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
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Online Access:https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/135788
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description Recent philosophical work on responsibility for emotion has tended to focus on what responsibility we can have for our own emotions. Folk psychology suggests we can also be responsible for others’ emotions, and they for ours, and that this can be reason for praise or blame . However, many branches of applied (and popular) psychology, and some schools of philosophy, deny there can be interpersonal responsibility for emotion. I shall be arguing here against this view, and for an account on which we can, albeit in varying degrees and on some rather diverse grounds, be responsible for each others’ emotions.
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spelling doaj.art-5b59ff5f624246bea41ba61c5097f3392022-12-22T01:11:20ZengUniversity of Rijeka. Faculty of Humanities and Social SciencesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy1845-84751849-05142006-01-01222744Responsibility for others' emotionsSophie RiettiRecent philosophical work on responsibility for emotion has tended to focus on what responsibility we can have for our own emotions. Folk psychology suggests we can also be responsible for others’ emotions, and they for ours, and that this can be reason for praise or blame . However, many branches of applied (and popular) psychology, and some schools of philosophy, deny there can be interpersonal responsibility for emotion. I shall be arguing here against this view, and for an account on which we can, albeit in varying degrees and on some rather diverse grounds, be responsible for each others’ emotions.https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/135788emotionresponsibilityethics
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European Journal of Analytic Philosophy
emotion
responsibility
ethics
title Responsibility for others' emotions
title_full Responsibility for others' emotions
title_fullStr Responsibility for others' emotions
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title_short Responsibility for others' emotions
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