"moral resentment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to express a feeling of indignation or disappointment in response to a moral transgression. For example, "John felt a deep moral resentment for his colleague's deception."
For Freud, emotional energies are highly labile, so that occurrent moral resentment may be an outlet of psychic forces springing from envy.
Butler did not mean that to act benevolently in each and every action was the entirety of virtue, for example as we shall see in the next section moral resentment was an appropriate attitude for a virtuous agent.
One of the examples was that of a woman who feels strong moral resentment at having been passed over for promotion in favour of someone whose performance was inferior to hers.
Indeed Butler goes so far as to suggest that communal moral resentment and the justice it gives rise to is what separates us from the state of nature where each man is arbiter of his own punishment which quickly devolves into revenge (a point developed further in Six Sermons).
Deborah Tollefsen (Tollefsen, 2006) goes as far as to argue that the sheer fact that we have emotional responses to groups anger, resentment, an moral indignation justifies our practice of holding groups morally responsible.
And there was diversity in the response of whites, some of whose anger reflected not resentment but moral disappointment at what struck them as the violation of colorblind justice.
It was exactly that sense of resentment and moral outrage that President Hugo Chavez rode to power in the December 1998 presidential election, in which he won 58percentt of the vote.
But here he is, exhibiting rare passion and moral outrage, fed by resentment of the demonstrators who have torn apart the decorous fictions of the rich helping the poor, when on every index, inequality has widened in the world.
But notably for Butler forgiveness does not entail giving up resentment for moral wrongs (Griswold 2008).
According to Wallace, a reactive attitude of resentment or moral indignation has as its object a certain sort of belief.
Nietzsche – whose Genealogy of Morals Fitzgerald greatly admired – called the transformation of class resentment into a moral system "ressentiment"; in America, it is increasingly called the failure of the American dream, a failure now mapped by the "Gatsby curve".
