Should moral blame stop at the grave? We often blame the dead for the bad things they did while alive. But blaming the dead poses a prima facie challenge to accounts which take our blaming practices to aim at communicating moral disapproval to wrongdoers or at improving their moral agency. If these kinds of aims are made definitional for blame, blaming the dead becomes impossible. But even on accounts which say that paradigmatically, blame is a form of moral engagement which aims to effect changes in the wrongdoer, blaming the dead may seem unjustified, pointless or even irrational. In this paper, I explain how blaming the dead can be made sense of and justified. However, not all cases of blaming the dead fit this explanation, because blaming the dead is not a homogenous practice.

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责怪死者

道德责备应该止于坟墓吗？我们常常将死者生前所做的坏事归咎于死者。但从表面上看，指责死者对那些认为我们的指责行为旨在向不法分子传达道德上的不满或提高他们的道德能动性的说法提出了挑战。如果这些目标被定义为指责，那么指责死者就变得不可能了。但即使从范式上讲，指责是一种道德参与形式，旨在改变不法行为者，指责死者可能看起来不合理、毫无意义，甚至不合理。在本文中，我解释了如何理解和合理地指责死者。然而，并非所有指责死者的案例都符合这种解释，因为指责死者并不是一种同质的做法。