Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisation
This paper addresses the conditions that need to be met for a human being to feel or, conversely, not to feel guilty of a wrongdoing against another human being. It does this in the light of Jaspers’ understanding of metaphysical guilt as arising from inter-human solidarity. My claim is twofold. Fir...
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| description | This paper addresses the conditions that need to be met for a human being to feel or, conversely, not to feel guilty of a wrongdoing against another human being. It does this in the light of Jaspers’ understanding of metaphysical guilt as arising from inter-human solidarity. My claim is twofold. First, I claim that, while metaphysical guilt is not impossible, Jaspers does not offer an explanation of how it arises either in the Question of German Guilt (Jaspers 2000) or in his other work on guilt in general Secondly, despite metaphysical guilt’s existence, it is, nevertheless, common for humans not to experience it, a phenomenon which Jaspers implicitly acknowledges but does not explain explicitly. I apply Axel Honneth’s concept of recognition in order to supply the social component and the theory of dehumanisation to explain why, under some circumstances, metaphysical guilt does not arise. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d9204289fc7a468fbd679dfc70131e162022-12-21T20:26:42ZengUniversity of the Free StateActa Academica0587-24052415-04792020-12-015202131146http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/24150479/aa52i2/7Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisationEwa Latecka0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0524-5774University of Zululand, South Africa This paper addresses the conditions that need to be met for a human being to feel or, conversely, not to feel guilty of a wrongdoing against another human being. It does this in the light of Jaspers’ understanding of metaphysical guilt as arising from inter-human solidarity. My claim is twofold. First, I claim that, while metaphysical guilt is not impossible, Jaspers does not offer an explanation of how it arises either in the Question of German Guilt (Jaspers 2000) or in his other work on guilt in general Secondly, despite metaphysical guilt’s existence, it is, nevertheless, common for humans not to experience it, a phenomenon which Jaspers implicitly acknowledges but does not explain explicitly. I apply Axel Honneth’s concept of recognition in order to supply the social component and the theory of dehumanisation to explain why, under some circumstances, metaphysical guilt does not arise.https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/4286/4033metaphysical guiltdehumanisationrecognitionkarl jaspersaxel honneth |
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| title | Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisation |
| title_full | Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisation |
| title_fullStr | Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisation |
| title_short | Metaphysical guilt: Jaspers, Honneth, and the problem of dehumanisation |
| title_sort | metaphysical guilt jaspers honneth and the problem of dehumanisation |
| topic | metaphysical guilt dehumanisation recognition karl jaspers axel honneth |
| url | https://journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/aa/article/view/4286/4033 |
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