Emotions as prima facie justifications: An epistemological analysis of guilt in relation to eating meat

• Main Author: Abad, Ella Isabel R.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Meat industry and trade; Emotions; Guilt; Epistemology; Philosophy
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdb_philo/7; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1006&context=etdb_philo
• Institution: De La Salle University

Is the experience of guilt enough to give me at least immediate justification for the corresponding moral beliefs that I have formed through guilt? Our emotions are claimed to have an epistemic role to play when we form our moral beliefs. For this reason, such an epistemic role entails that emotions...