What a shame Andrew Tate didn’t live in ancient Greece
Has any public figure of recent memory ever admitted to feeling shame for anything they have said or done? As a moral term “shame” appears to have disappeared almost entirely from normal discourse (bar the self-satisfied “fat-shaming”). That tells us much about ourselves. Aristotle discusses the term in some depth. He does not see it as an active virtue, but rather as a “condition involving a range of feelings,” which he defines as “a kind of pain and agitation concerning the class of evils, whether present, past or future, that seem to bring a person into disrespect.” His definition is well in tune with the evidence of ancient Greek literature, in which the presence or absence of shame puts your reputation at stake.
