The Reason for the Guilt

Symposion: Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences 3 (1):9-10 (2016)
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Abstract

I may feel guilty for situations and events in which I seemed to play no causal role, which (it would seem) would have been exactly the same had I never existed. What is the reason for this guilt? The paper argues that it is to be found in a sense of universal connectedness: I take myself to always make a difference, no matter how distant I appear to be from anything that happens.

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Ermanno Bencivenga
University of California, Irvine

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