Being Guilty: Freedom, Responsibility, and Conscience in German Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger Elgat Guy
Being Guilty: Freedom, Responsibility, and Conscience in German Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger Elgat Guy What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human…
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Being Guilty: Freedom, Responsibility, and Conscience in German Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger Elgat Guy
What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? Being Guilty seeks to answer these questions through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul R�e, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on guilt, freedom, responsibility, and conscience.The concept of guilt has not received sufficient attention from scholars working in the history of German philosophy. How can it be explained or justified?
Guy Elgat redresses both these scholarly lacunae to show how these philosophers' arguments can be more deeply grasped once read in their historical context, a history that should be read as proceeding dialectically. What's more, even individual thinkers whose conceptions of guilt have been researched have not been studied fully within their historical contexts. Thus, in Kant, Schelling, and Schopenhauer, we find