Being Guilty: Freedom, Responsibility, and Conscience in German Philosophy from Kant to Heidegger

by Guy Elgat

What can guilt, the painful sting of the bad conscience, tell us about who we are as human beings? How can it be explained or justified? Being Guilty seeks to answer these questions through an examination of the views of Kant, Schelling, Schopenhauer, Paul R e, Nietzsche, and Heidegger on guilt, freedom, responsibility, and conscience.

The concept of guilt has not received sufficient attention from scholars working in the history of German...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197605567
• ISBN13: 9780197605561
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.6"