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    Emotions associated with self-blame (guilt, remorse) and ... — Carmelics
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    Emotions associated with self-blame (guilt, remorse) and others' blame (anger, resentment) play a central role in the process of taking responsibility for wrongdoing.

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    • 1.On a communicative retributivist account, treating offenders as responsible agents involves pointing out when they have done wrong and expecting them to take responsibility for their wrongful actions.
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    • 2.Taking responsibility for one's wrongdoing requires that one acknowledge it as wrongdoing, commit to reforming one's behaviour, and begin to reconcile with one's community by making reparation for the wrongdoing.
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    • 3.Acknowledging wrongdoing, committing to reform, and making reparation are processes in which emotions of self-blame and others' blame play a central role.
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    • 1.Kantian accounts of moral agency locate responsibility-taking in rational acknowledgment of the moral law, not in affective states, which are heteronomous and vary with temperament and circumstance.
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    • 2.Martha Nussbaum's recent work argues that retributive anger (resentment) rests on a payback fallacy and should be excised from justice practices, undermining the claim that others' blame emotions play a legitimate central role.
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    • 3.If resentment is normatively defective as a basis for holding others responsible, then a process of taking responsibility that is structurally responsive to such emotions inherits that defect.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of virtue requires that moral emotions track objective desert, but guilt and resentment are notoriously unreliable guides—prone to excess, deficiency, and misdirection regardless of actual wrongdoing.
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    • 2.If the emotions central to taking responsibility are systematically distorted by factors like trauma, socialization, and power imbalance, grounding responsibility-taking in them conflates psychological contingency with normative adequacy.
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    To this second version of the objection to retributivist blame, retributivists may respond that although emotions associated with retributive blame have no doubt contributed to various excesses in penal policy, this is not to say that the notion of deserved censure can have no appropriate place in a suitably reformed penal system. After all, when properly focused and proportionate, reactive attitudes such as anger may play an important role by focusing our attention on wrongdoing and motivating us to stand up to it; anger-tinged blame may also serve to convey how seriously we take the wrongdoi...

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