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    Jeffrie Murphy's own account of resentment as a self-rega... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→One may legitimately resent (and hence consider forgiving) only wrongs done to oneself.

    Jeffrie Murphy's own account of resentment as a self-regarding emotion does not preclude a structurally parallel account of other-regarding moral anger that grounds third-party forgiveness.

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    Jeffrie Murphy(as the philosopher whose theory is being discussed)
    A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in ethics, particularly emotions like resentment, forgiveness, and moral anger.
    Structurally parallel(describing the relationship between Hegel and Kant's philosophical projects)
    Having a similar organization, method, or logical form, without necessarily being identical in content or conclusions.
    grounds(Used in the context of justifying beliefs about the future on the basis of past information)
    Information or evidence that confers rational entitlement to hold a belief or assumption
    other-regarding(as a description of moral anger)
    Focused on how something affects other people, rather than on yourself personally.
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    (Proposed within the no-priority view discussion of wrongness)
    A specific form of anger conceptually restricted to cases that are founded on moral reasons, particularly wrongness.
    self-regarding emotion(as a category of emotions)
    An emotion that focuses on how something affects you personally, rather than on other people or abstract principles.
    third-party forgiveness(as the outcome being grounded in moral anger)
    When someone who wasn't directly harmed chooses to forgive someone on behalf of, or in response to harm done to, another person.

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