Golub, C orcid.org/0000-0003-3934-5842 (2019) Making Peace with Moral Imperfection. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy, 16 (2). pp. 116-132. ISSN 1559-3061
Abstract
How can we rationally make peace with our past moral failings, while committing to avoid similar mistakes in the future? Is it because we cannot do anything about the past, while the future is still open? Or is it that regret for our past mistakes is psychologically harmful, and we need to forgive ourselves in order to be able to move on? Or is it because moral mistakes enable our moral growth? I argue that these and other answers do not properly resolve the problem of temporal asymmetry in our attitudes toward moral imperfection, and I defend an alternative response, centered on our personal attachments and our biographical identity.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Author. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2019 11:11 |
Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2023 22:03 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | University of Southern California |
Identification Number: | 10.26556/jesp.v16i2.767 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:153666 |
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