Questions tagged [guilt]
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How can I abandon beliefs supplied by the culture?
I have beliefs which seem irrational and trivial to me. These beliefs diminish my freedom. But still, guilt is produced when I am not acting in accordance with these beliefs.
I am not speaking about abandoning essential beliefs necessary to avoid…
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Kant and "the causes of living"
Once upon a time, I was thinking about the argument for the justification of mass civilian killing that is read off a sense of collective responsibility in "evil nations," and wondered:
If it is justifiable for a pilot to kill civilians because…
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Isn't it is unethical that lawyers protect their client even after knowing the client is guilty, isn't its injustice to the true person?
Imagine a lawyer already knows the guilt of his client, has all the proofs then too why he protects the unethical side, isn't that injustice to the other side.
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Can you make a promise if you experience no guilt
I am having trouble to understand why Nietzche wants to get rid of guilt. From what I understand he claims that guilt was introduced by the ressintiment of the oppressed slaves as a way to vent their revenge. However humans don't have free will…
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