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Chapter 6 - Don’t Suffer in Silence

A Self-Help Guide for Self-Blame

from Part II - The Ethics of Self-Blame

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

Andreas Brekke Carlsson
Affiliation:
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
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There are better and worse ways to blame others. Likewise, there are better and worse ways to blame yourself. And though there is an ever-expanding literature on the norms that govern our blaming practices, relatively little attention has been paid to the norms that govern expressions of self-blame. In this chapter, I argue that when we blame ourselves, we ought not do so privately. Rather, we should, ceteris paribus, express our self-blame to those we have wronged. I then explore how this norm can contribute to our understanding of the ethics of self-blame as well as the nature of blameworthiness itself.

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Print publication year: 2022

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