Naked: The Dark Side of Shame and Moral Life

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book-author

Krista K. Thomason

publisher

Oxford University Press; 1st edition

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PDF

pages

256 pages

language

English

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B078NZ32MF

isbn10

190843276

isbn13

9780190843274


Book Description

We know shame can be a morally valuable emotion that helps us to realize when we fail to be the kinds of people we aspire to be. We feel guilt when we fail to live up to the standards; norms; and ideals that we value as part of a virtuous life.

But the lived reality of shame is far more complex and far darker than this — the gut-level experience of shame that has little to do with failing to reach our ideals. We feel shame viscerally about nudity; sex; our bodies; and weaknesses or flaws that we can’t control. Guilt can cause self-destructive and violent behavior; and chronic shame can cause painful psychological damage.

Is shame a valuable moral emotion; or would we be better off without it? In Naked: The Dark Side of Shame and Moral Life (PDF); Krista K. Thomason takes a hard look at the reality of shame. The experience of it involves a tension between identity and self-conception: namely; what causes me shame both overshadows me (my self-conception) and yet is me (my character) she argues. We are liable to feelings of guilt because we are not always who we take ourselves to be.

Thomason extends her thought-provoking analysis to our current social and political landscape: shaming has increased dramatically because of the proliferation of social media platforms. And although these online shaming practices can be used in harmful ways; they can also root out those who express racist and sexist views and enable marginalized groups to confront oppression. Is more and continued shaming; therefore; better; and is there moral promise in using shame in this way?

Thomason grapples with these and numerous other questions. Her account of shame makes sense of its good and bad features; its various gradations and complexity; and ultimately of its essential place in our moral lives.

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