| 书目名称 | Punishment and Desert | | 编辑 | John Kleinig | | 视频video | | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Superficial acquaintance with the literature on punishment leaves a fairly definite impression. There are two approaches to punishment - retributive and utilitarian - and while some attempts may be made to reconcile them, it is the former rather than the latter which requires the reconciliation. Taken by itself the retributive approach is primitive and unenlightened, falling short of the rational civilized humanitarian values which we have now acquired. Certainly this is the dominant impression left by ‘popular‘ discussions of the SUbject. And retributive vs. utilitarian seems to be the mould in which most philosophical dis cussions are cast. The issues are far more complex than this. Punishment may be con sidered in a great variety of contexts - legal, educational, parental, theological, informal, etc. - and in each of these contexts several im portant moral questions arise. Approaches which see only a simple choice between retributivism and utilitarianism tend to obscure this variety and plurality. But even more seriously, the distinction between retributivism and utilitarianism is far from clear. That it reflects the traditional distinction between deontological and teleologi | | 出版日期 | Book 1973 | | 关键词 | concept; morality; subject | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2027-5 | | isbn_softcover | 978-90-247-1592-3 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-010-2027-5 | | copyright | Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1973 |
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