@article{ART003173034},
author={hyeyeonju},
title={The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding},
journal={PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE},
issn={1975-1621},
year={2025},
number={47},
pages={203-242}
TY - JOUR
AU - hyeyeonju
TI - The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding
JO - PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 47
PB - Research Institute for East-West Thought
SP - 203
EP - 242
SN - 1975-1621
AB - Guilt(Schuld) is a fundamental phenomenon of human existence. Guilt, along with feelings of shame, regret, humiliation, embarrassment, and disgrace, is seen as an indispensable element in the establishment of norms in the life of a community living with others. Also, when guilt is severe enough to cause various mental disorders, it can be accompanied by a variety of pathological phenomena. In this sense, the discussion of the concept of guilt is an important topic in terms of understanding and therapeutic aspects of mental suffering.
This paper will first address religion, theology, psychoanalysis, and psychology, which are the main areas that present the source of guilt and related phenomena. and then examine the existentialist concept of guilt. This view points out the limitations of these areas and views human existence from a holistic perspective. In most religions, the story of human origin deals with guilt as a fundamental personality to reveal the status of human existence between God and animals. The original sin associated with human origin in Christian dogma has a religious meaning that is directly connected to the theory of salvation. In this article, we will discuss the meaning of these original sins in connection with the theory of free will and Theodizee. Psychoanalysis deals with guilt in the profound psychological structure of an infant's physical environment and biological conditions, and deals with the origins of conscience and culture as a related guilt consciousness. Psychology compares emotional forms such as shame and guilt that occur in the process of socialization, handles with guilt from a behavioral perspective, and verifies guilt through neurobiology. Through Kierkegaard and Jaspers, guilt associated with the fundamental anxiety of human existence and the concept of guilt as a limiting situation associated with the elucidation of existence will be addressed in the philosophy of existence. It is expected to provide a new opportunity for counseling beyond the limitations of psychology and psychoanalysis treatment methods.
KW - sin;original sin;guilt;existence;anxiety;marginal situation;elucidation
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hyeyeonju. (2025). The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 47, 203-242.
hyeyeonju. 2025, "The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding", PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, no.47, pp.203-242.
hyeyeonju "The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE 47 pp.203-242 (2025) : 203.
hyeyeonju. The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding. 2025; 47 : 203-242.
hyeyeonju. "The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.47(2025) : 203-242.
hyeyeonju. The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE, 47, 203-242.
hyeyeonju. The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding. PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE. 2025; 47 203-242.
hyeyeonju. The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding. 2025; 47 : 203-242.
hyeyeonju. "The Concept of Guilt and Human Understanding" PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE no.47(2025) : 203-242.
