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How Does One Know What Shame Is? Epistemology, Emotions, and Forms of Life in Juxtaposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Ullaliina Lehtinen
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Abstract

Do women conceptualize—understand, know about, and react to—shame differently from the way men do? Does the experience and knowledge of shame have a gender-specificity, and along what lines could it be analyzed? By introducing a distinction between life or enduring experiences, “Erfahrung,” and episodic or occurrent experiences, “Erlebnis,” andby juxtaposing this distinction with the Rylean notion that knowledge is dispositional this paper argues for the plausibility of a gender-specificivy.

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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , Winter 1998 , pp. 56 - 77
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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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