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- Title
On God and Guilt: A Reply to Aaron Ridley.
- Authors
Risse, Mathias
- Abstract
The article reports on two conceptions of guilt. The first conceives of guilt as an experience of reprehensible failure in response to specific actions. The second conception understands guilt as a condition that shapes one's whole existence. Guilt, on this view, is a persistent feeling of imperfection. Such guilt, existential guilt, presupposes a reference point vis-a-vis which one's life is so experienced. The article further informs that existential guilt manifests itself especially in locally-reactive guilt, but there can be locally-reactive guilt without existential guilt. Existential guilt appears in Christian hereditary sin under the description of mea culpa, mea magna culpa, mea maxima culpa.
- Subjects
GUILT (Psychology); PHILOSOPHY; CATHOLICS; GUILT &; culture; CHRISTIAN ethics; SIN
- Publication
Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2005, Issue 29, p46
- ISSN
0968-8005
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/nie.2005.0009