A Strange State of Mournful Contentment: The Role of Compassion in Moral Betterment
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216275%3A25210%2F23%3A39920737" target="_blank" >RIV/00216275:25210/23:39920737 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://passion-journal.org/article/view/13769/20348" target="_blank" >https://passion-journal.org/article/view/13769/20348</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.59123/passion.v1i2.13769" target="_blank" >10.59123/passion.v1i2.13769</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Strange State of Mournful Contentment: The Role of Compassion in Moral Betterment
Original language description
In this paper, I will consider a unique case in which changing one’s character is part of a process of moral betterment when facing oppression. By engaging with the Dutch-Jewish intellectual and Holocaust victim Etty Hillesum, I will highlight the situated dimension of moral betterment as a practice that is driven by the pressure of concurrent events. I will claim that moral betterment does not need to come out of an internal will to change for the better. Instead, I will argue that “bearing real suffering” (Hillesum 1996: 220) is what makes compassion a potential source of moral betterment. This is possible because, in compassion, one experiences emotional friction between weakness and strength in facing the suffering caused by oppression.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA22-15446S" target="_blank" >GA22-15446S: "ECEGADMAT". Varieties of Feeling Bad about Climate and Other Things</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Passion : Journal of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotion
ISSN
2773-1715
e-ISSN
2773-1715
Volume of the periodical
1
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
ES - SPAIN
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
137-153
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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