Organon F
Volume 27, August 2020, Issue 3, Pages 377–394
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
How Is Vicarious Feeling Possible? In Defense of Reactive Attitudes
Sunny Yang
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27305
My aim in this paper is to illuminate the question of how vicarious feeling is possible, by advancing our understanding of vicarious emotions. I address this problem by classifying the reactive attitude into two categories: the vicarious, and the self-reactive. I argue that guilt is constitutively tied to personal responsibility and that the appropriateness of vicarious feeling of group harm derives from a reflection on the appropriateness of our own reactive attitude, that is, vicarious reactive attitude, e.g., indignation or outrage.
Collective guilt; indignation; reactive attitude; responsibility; vicarious feeling.
Author
Sunny Yang
Affiliation
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Address
Minerva Liberal Art College, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 81, Oedaero, Mohyeon, Choingu, Yongin, Gyeonggi, 17035, South Korea
Received
16 June 2019
Accepted
12 February 2020
Published online
29 February 2020
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Yang, S. (2020). How Is Vicarious Feeling Possible? In Defense of Reactive Attitudes. Organon F, 27(3), 377–394. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27305
Chicago
Yang, Sunny. 2020. "How Is Vicarious Feeling Possible? In Defense of Reactive Attitudes." Organon F 27 (3): 377–394. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27305
Harvard
Yang, S. (2020). How Is Vicarious Feeling Possible? In Defense of Reactive Attitudes. Organon F, 27(3), pp. 377–394. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2020.27305
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