BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260609T011703Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20180508T120000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20180508T133000 SUMMARY:The Duty to Grieve UID:20260609T164431Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Australia/Sydney LOCATION:221 Burwood Hwy\, Burwood\, Australia\, 3125 DESCRIPTION:

Robert Solomon&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;On grief and gratitude&rdquo\; is perhaps the best known contemporary philosophical article on grief. There Solomon makes the provocative claim that there is a duty to grieve &ndash\; that those who do not grieve or do not grieve sufficiently are subject to &ldquo\;the most severe moral censure\,&rdquo\; that as a &ldquo\;moral emotion\,&rdquo\; grief is not only an &ldquo\;appropriate reaction to the loss of a loved one\, but also in a strong sense obligatory.&rdquo\; While Solomon offer reasons why grief speaks positively of a person&rsquo\;s relations with others and why grief may contribute to the bereaved&rsquo\;s well-being\, he does not offer an explicit argument for the obligatoriness of grief. Here I consider a number of routes by which such a claim might be defended. If there is a duty to grieve\, its object must be other living people (those with whom one shares grief at a particular person&rsquo\;s death)\, the deceased for whom one grieves\, or oneself. The first two\, I argue\, are likely to be candidates for duties of mourning\, i.e.\, duties to engage in public or ritualistic memorialization or acknowledgements of the deceased&rsquo\;s death\, etc. Only the last\, a duty to grieve owed to oneself\, is a credible candidate for a duty to grieve. For insofar as grief is an egocentric activity\, it responds to the death of a person with whom one stands in an identity-constituting relationship and hence involves the attempt to re-establish or place on new terms that relationship in light of that individual&rsquo\;s death. The source of a self-concerning duty to grieve is that grief thus represents both an opportunity for\, and motivator of\, self-knowledge\, that is\, knowledge of one&rsquo\;s practical identity and values. The duty to grieve\, I conclude\, is a non-enforceable duty to oneself whose non-fulfillment should elicit agent-centered regret.

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