Citation

Shepherd AP. Transactions of the Charles S Peirce Society 2021; 57(4): 511-533.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021)

DOI

10.2979/trancharpeirsoc.57.4.05

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

In the mid-2000s, the number of United States military veterans committing suicide drastically increased. In an effort to understand the causes this crisis, renewed attention was given to "moral injury," a type of trauma identified by psychologists in the 1990s. While initially confined to the field of psychiatry, interest in moral injury has spread, with spiritual care providers, legal experts, and military ethicists weighing in. Academic philosophers, meanwhile, have largely overlooked moral injury. In this essay, I seek to fill that lacuna. Drawing upon the ethical philosophy of Josiah Royce, I propose a philosophical scaffolding for psychopathological approaches to healing moral injury that addresses the limitations of current approaches. © Charles S. Peirce Society.

Language: en

Keywords

Ethics; Atonement; Josiah Royce; Moral Injury