Download or read book Transcendental Guilt written by Sami Pihlstrsm and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-03-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcendental Guilt challenges traditional ways of understanding moral philosophy by proposing, instead of mainstream ethical theorizing, a serious moral reflection on our ethical finitude, focusing on the concept of guilt. It argues that guilt plays a 'transcendental' role in our ethical lives by being constitutive of the seriousness characteristic of the moral point of view.