"What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? Being Guilty seeks to answer this question through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul Rée, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on guilt, freedom, responsibili…
'Being Guilty' examines the thought of six central German philosophers - Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul R ee, Nietzsche and Heidegger - on the phenomenon of guilt, or the painful sting of bad conscience suffered when we perform a wrong action. The work also examines these p…
"What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? Being Guilty seeks to answer this question through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul Rée, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on guilt, freedom, responsibili…
Being Guilty examines the thought of six central German philosophers--Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul Rée, Nietzsche, and Heidegger--on the phenomenon of guilt, or the painful sting of bad conscience suffered when we perform a wrong action. The work also examines these philo…
Ressentiment-the hateful desire for revenge-plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality's valu…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Ressentiment as the 'Home of Justice'? -- 2 The Psychology of Ressentiment -- 3 Ressentiment's Injustice -- 4 Slave Revolt, Self-Deception, the Free Subject -- 5 Interlude: Bad Conscien…
Ressentiment-the hateful desire for revenge-plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality's valu…
Ressentiment-the hateful desire for revenge-plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality's valu…
Ressentiment as the home of justice? -- The psychology of ressentiment -- Ressentiment's injustice -- Slave revolt, self-deception, the free subject -- Interlude: bad conscience, guilt, and the priestly ascetic ideal -- The emergence of moral justice -- A genealogy of the capaci…
Ressentiment - the hateful desire for revenge - plays a pivotal role in Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals. Ressentiment explains the formation of bad conscience, guilt, asceticism, and, most importantly, it motivates the "slave revolt" that gives rise to Western morality's …