Why Is Gratitude So Difficult?
Does Gratitude to R for φ-ing Imply Gratitude that R φ-ed?” isn’t a question we often ask ourselves on Thanksgiving. Translated into plain English—it’s the title of a scholarly article by the philosopher Tony Manela—it asks whether it’s possible to be grateful to someone for doing something without being grateful that the same something has happened. The idea isn’t that complicated—at least, not at first. Imagine, Manela writes, that “Yakov and Ruth work together in a factory with dangerous machinery.” Yakov gets one of his hands stuck in a machine ….[READ]
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