PrescriptiveExistential
What is regret worth?
On the axis: Relation to the past · one's own past
Do regret, remorse and repentance keep alive what mattered and hold us back from repeating the same mistake, or do they only double the pain of a harm that is already over?
Philosophers' positions
inferable
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Justification
Understanding that everything happens by lessens the power of sad passions over the mind: we grieve less over what we know to be inevitable. This serene acceptance of necessity prefigures , without revolt against what must be.
I have taken great care not to deride human actions, nor to bewail them, nor to detest them, but to understand them.Political Treatise, I, 4
Ethics, V, prop. 6 (the mind suffers less from affects it refers to necessity)
Positions over time
The philosophers positioned on the axis “Relation to the past”, over time. Hover a dot to read its name.
This problem's anchors
Anchors: Spinoza · Scheler