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Shame and Responsibility

By Nancy Sherman, Ph.D. on January 18, 2012 in Stoic Warrior

Writing about guilt feelings can open the floodgates to readers' own painful and unresolved guilt, but also to outrage at those who should feel guilt, but don't. The probing and rich comments I received on line and in email about my essay, "The Moral Logic of Guilt," touched on both responses and set me thinking more about the appropriateness of various guilt feelings. Read More

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Nancy Sherman, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and a fellow of the Kennedy Institute at Georgetown University.

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