Regret: A Study in Ancient Moral Psychology

by James Warren

This book provides a study of regret (metameleia) in the moral psychology of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics. It was important for all these philosophers to insist that regret is a characteristic of neither fully virtuous nor wholly irredeemable characters. Rather, they took regret to be something that affects people who retrospectively feel pain at realising an earlier mistaken action. Regret sets out in full the accounts of the nature of this emotion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198840268
• ISBN13: 9780198840268
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"