Shame and sense of shame in the work of I. Kant.

Authors

  • Ana Falcato Universidade Nova de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2019.v7n2.06.p73

Keywords:

shame, sense of shame, Beobachtungen

Abstract

This essay contradicts a wide-spread tendency, even in classic interpretations of his practical philosophy, to isolate Kant’s famous moral and decisional rigorism against the influence of emotions or sensible, subjective, impressions. A careful examination of Kant’s work on Antropology, strictly construed, as well as of some fundamental notes from the so-called pre-critical period allows us to grasp that and how Kant actually ascribed a fundamental role in moral matters even to a negative emotion (or affective disposition) like shame.

Recebido / Received: 8.7.2019.
Aprovado / Approved: 22.9.2019.

Author Biography

  • Ana Falcato, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

    Ph.D in Philosophy from the NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal. Between 2013 and 2015 she was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Johannes-Gutenberg University and the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel, Hypatia, Kant-Studien, Wittgenstein-Studien and Daimon: Revista International de Filosofía. In 2018, she published, with Palgrave Macmillan, Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism (https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319770772), and in 2019, with Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity and Values (co-edited with Luís Aguiar e Sousa). She is currently a research fellow at IFILNOVA, where she conducts a project about the novelistic and critical work of J.M. Coetzee. Over the past four-and-a-half years she has organised several international meetings at NOVA, and in all of them she systematically presented work on negative moral emotions, discussed through the lenses of literary criticism, phenomenology, philosophical anthropological and moral philosophy.

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Published

2020-01-14

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2019)

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Artigos / Articles

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Shame and sense of shame in the work of I. Kant. (2020). Kantian Studies (EK), 7(2), 73-80. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2019.v7n2.06.p73