Regret: A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology

by James Warren

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198840268

ISBN13:9780198840268

Release Date:February 2022

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.07 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"

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Philosophy Psychology

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