Adopt(ed by) the attitude!
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https://doi.org/10.30820/0942-2285-2020-2-12Keywords:
Ressentiment, Scheler, disclosive posture, moral emotions, implicit moral judgmenetAbstract
This article addresses the affective development process of a moral attitude in and towards the world and brings this into conversation with concepts of ressentiment. We understand ressentiment in respect to Scheler’s early moral-philosophical approach. He defined it as a »lasting mental attitude« that departs from the experience of a (moral) injustice and is expressed by a negative value-attitude (Werthaltung) towards »other« objects. Drawing on a fictive case example, we will first show that a pre-cognitive assessment of the situation – that means a bodily being oriented towards the situation – can discharge at a point other than the situation that triggers the actual affect. Futhermore, we analyze how the initial affect can gradually shift to becoming a moral, world-disclosing posture. Based on Scheler’s theory of ressentiment development, we argue that ressentiment can be understood as a specific form of a morally disclosive posture. Finally, we discuss the psychological domain of this morally disclosive posture with respect to a socio-genetic perspective. Referring back to the case example and in an outlook, we address how already existing (and future) social scientific perspectives could deepen the psycho-affective analysis by systematically considering the influence of socio-political dimensions of power.Downloads
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2020-12-10
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Wrbouschek, Markus, Natalie Rodax, Katharina Hametner, Sara Paloni, and Nora Ruck. 2020. “Adopt(ed By) the Attitude!”. Journal für Psychologie 28 (2):12-33. https://doi.org/10.30820/0942-2285-2020-2-12.
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