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Rather than focusing exclusively on Aristotle’s own account of shame and its possible shortcomings, this chapter offers a philosophical meditation on contrasting interpretations of the emotion of shame within four academic discourses: social psychology, psychological anthropology, educational psychology, and Aristotelian scholarship. It turns out that within each of these discourses there is a mainstream interpretation which emphasizes shame’s expendability or moral ugliness, but also a heterodox interpretation which seeks to retrieve and defend shame. The provenance of the mainstream interpretation merits scrutiny as the heterodox interpretation seems to offer a more realistic picture of shame’s role in moral development. The chapter suggests ways forward for more balanced analyses of the nature, moral justification, and educative role of shame, by reconstructing Aristotle’s own account of shame.
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Rather than focusing exclusively on Aristotle’s own account of shame and its possible shortcomings, this chapter offers a philosophical meditation on contrasting interpretations of the emotion of shame within four academic discourses: social psychology, psychological anthropology, educational psychology, and Aristotelian scholarship.
It turns out that within each of these discourses there is a mainstream interpretation which emphasizes shame’s expendability or moral ugliness, but also a heterodox interpretation which seeks to retrieve and defend shame.
The provenance of the mainstream interpretation merits scrutiny as the heterodox interpretation seems to offer a more realistic picture of shame’s role in moral development.
The chapter suggests ways forward for more balanced analyses of the nature, moral justification, and educative role of shame, by reconstructing Aristotle’s own account of shame.
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