Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good - Marta Jimenez
Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good - Marta Jimenez Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of the role of shame in moral development. Other emotions such as…
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Aristotle on Shame and Learning to Be Good - Marta Jimenez
Marta Jimenez presents a novel interpretation of Aristotle's account of the role of shame in moral development. Other emotions such as friendliness, righteous indignation, emulation, hope, and even spiritedness may play important roles on the road to virtue. Despite shame's bad reputation as a potential obstacle to the development of moral autonomy, Jimenez argues that shame is for Aristotle the proto-virtue of those learning to be good, since it is the emotion that equips them with the seeds of virtue.
However, shame is the only one that Aristotle repeatedly associates with moral progress. Th