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- Title
Feeling Wronged: The Value and Deontic Power of Moral Distress.
- Authors
Bagnoli, Carla
- Abstract
This paper argues that moral distress is a distinctive category of reactive attitudes that are taken to be part and parcel of the social dynamics for recognition. While moral distress does not demonstrate evidence of wrongdoing, it does emotionally articulate a demand for normative attention that is addressed to others as moral providers. The argument for this characterization of the deontic power of moral distress builds upon two examples in which the cognitive value of the victim's emotional experience is controversial: the case of micro-aggression, and the case of misplaced distress. In contrast to appraisal and perceptual models of distress, it is argued that its epistemic and normative value is dialogical rather than evidential, in that it presses claims that engage the audience in a normative discussion about the normative standing of the claimant, the proper grounds of the attitude, and the normative standards used to assess them.
- Subjects
SOCIAL dynamics; SOCIAL theory; SYSTEMS theory; SOCIAL change; PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
- Publication
Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 2022, Vol 25, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
1386-2820
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10677-021-10241-0