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Regret: A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology

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Regret: A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology - Warren, James
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This book provides a study of regret (metameleia) in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. It was important for all these philosophers to insist that regret is a characteristic of neither fully virtuous nor wholly irredeemable characters. Rather, they took regret to be something that affects people who retrospectively feel pain at realising an earlier mistaken action. Regret sets out in full the accounts of the nature of this emotion found in the works of these philosophers, viewing them in the context ...

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Regret: A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology 2021, Oxford University Press, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780198840268

Hardcover