Guilt and its neighbors -- Commandments and sins -- Guilt and relationships -- Guilt without transgression -- The pathology of guilt -- The development of moral judgment -- The evolution of guilt -- Guilt in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- Guilt in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Co…
Katchadourian first explores the ways in which guilt functions within individual lives and intimate relationships, looking at behaviors that typically induce guilt in both historical and modern contexts. He then turns to the way the capacity for moral judgments develops within t…
Katchadourian first explores the ways in which guilt functions within individual lives and intimate relationships, looking at behaviors that typically induce guilt in both historical and modern contexts. He then turns to the way the capacity for moral judgments develops within t…
"Sigmund Freud, in his search for the origins of the sense of guilt in individual life and culture, regularly speaks of "reading a dark trace," thus referring to the Oedipus myth as a myth about the problem of human guilt. In Freud's view, this sense of guilt is a trace, a path,…
"The notion of conscience remains one of the most widely used concepts and a cornerstone of ordinary moral thinking. This book explores where this widespread confidence in conscience stems from, examining the history of conscience as a moral concept and its characteristic moral …