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HomeUpcoming EventsBhaskarjit Neog (Jawarhalal Nehru University): Guilt and Moral Responsibility In Collective Contexts
Bhaskarjit Neog (Jawarhalal Nehru University): Guilt and Moral Responsibility in Collective Contexts

The emotion of guilt feeling is an important moral agential quality. When an individual realizes that she has done something morally wrong it is warranted for her to feel guilty about it. But how do we make sense of this plain conceptual connection between guilt feeling and moral responsibility in the context of a collective? How does a collective feel guilty about a particular morally relevant action, given the fact that feeling is essentially a psychological matter of individual human person? What kind of feeling is a collective guilt feeling? More specifically, what is it for a collective to feel guilty about something? This paper aims to discuss the possibility of a non-metaphorical collective guilt feeling in the context of moral culpability of collective entities. It defends a non-individualist account of collective guilt feeling by maintaining a distinction between singularity of agency and plurality of experiencing subjects.

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  • Thu 26 May 2016, 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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Coombs Seminar Room A

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Philosophy Departmental Seminars