Appreciation is a basic response to what people do, or try to do, to their contributions, and to the traits they display. Given how central feeling, expressing and receiving appreciation are in our everyday lives with others, one might wonder why these are important. In this lecture, Professor Cheshire Calhoun suggests that reflection on appreciation sheds light on what it means to be a responsible person. To be a responsible person is not simply to be someone who can be held responsible, resented, and blamed. Being a responsible person involves taking responsibility in various ways. Appreciation is thus as central to our practices of responsibility as is resentment.
Cheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University and chair of the American Philosophical Assocation's board of officers.
Kai Spiekermann is Professor of Political Philosophy in the LSE Department of Government.
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