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The Nature of Offense

Andrew Sneddon

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A theory of “lean offense” is described and defended. This view presents typical offense experiences as a combination of a feeling that it is putatively bad to experience and a judgment that this feeling signals that something offensive has occurred and that the feeling is a morally appropriate response to this. Offense is shown to be a reactive attitude, in P.F. Strawson’s sense. Because of this, the account of lean offense is not an analysis of our offense experiences but rather a commentary on them. Attention is drawn to the importance of doing justice to both the agential and patiential aspects of offense, following the lead of Soran Reader.

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A theory of “lean offense” is described and defended. This view presents typical offense experiences as a combination of a feeling that it is putatively bad to experience and a judgment that this feeling signals that something offensive has occurred and that the feeling is a morally appropriate response to this. Offense is shown to be a reactive attitude, in P.F. Strawson’s sense. Because of this, the account of lean offense is not an analysis of our offense experiences but rather a commentary on them. Attention is drawn to the importance of doing justice to both the agential and patiential aspects of offense, following the lead of Soran Reader.

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A theory of “lean offense” is described and defended. This view presents typical offense experiences as a combination of a feeling that it is putatively bad to experience and a judgment that this feeling signals that something offensive has occurred and that the feeling is a morally appropriate response to this. Offense is shown to be a reactive attitude, in P.F. Strawson’s sense. Because of this, the account of lean offense is not an analysis of our offense experiences but rather a commentary on them. Attention is drawn to the importance of doing justice to both the agential and patiential aspects of offense, following the lead of Soran Reader.

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