How Is Vicarious Feeling Possible? In Defense of Reactive Attitudes

How Is Vicarious Feeling Possible? In Defense of Reactive Attitudes

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My aim in this paper is to illuminate the question of how vicarious feeling is possible, by advancing our understanding of vicarious emotions.I address this problem by classifying the reactive attitude apunisw2 into two categories: the vicarious, and the self-reactive.I argue acupatch that guilt is constitutively tied to personal responsibility and that the appropriateness of vicarious feeling of group harm derives from a reflection on the appropriateness of our own reactive attitude, that is, vicarious reactive attitude, e.

g., indignation or outrage.