By J. Angelo Corlett (eds.)
Responsibility and Punishment, 3rd variation presents a clear-headed safeguard of retributivism opposed to a number of long-standing criticisms. finally, a practicable model of retributivism emerges as one that withstands extra feedback than competing theories of accountability and punishment. Extending the matter of fallacious doing to collectives and repayment, Corlett explores the problem of reparations for earlier wrongs on the subject of the crimes devoted opposed to local american citizens by way of the us govt. No different philosophical paintings on accountability and punishment shows this breadth of scope, because it delves deeply into specific matters with retributivism, accountability, and likely parts of repayment. Academicians and execs in ethics, ethical, social, political, and criminal philosophy are inclined to reap the benefits of this analytical remedy of accountability and punishment.
"In the 3rd variation of accountability and Punishment, Angelo Corlett has made a great ebook even greater! Corlett's ebook is specified within the approach it blends summary idea with concrete software in a worldly manner. there's paintings simply on thought, and basically utilized paintings; yet Corlett manages to meld the 2 in a special and hugely winning approach. hugely recommended!"
John Martin Fischer, writer of "The Metaphysics of unfastened Will" and "Responsibility and Control".
"This provocative and hugely insightful piece of labor constitutes a unique, major, and welcome contribution to the literature at the ethical justification of punishment. Corlett's improvement of an unique model of retributivism, with unique emphasis on rules of proportional punishment, is especially engaging."
Ishtiyaque Haji, writer of "Deontic Morality" and "Moral Appraisability".
J. Angelo Corlett is Professor of Philosophy & Ethics at San Diego country collage, and writer of over seventy five articles in numerous prime philosophy and different educational journals, together with the books: studying Social wisdom (Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1996); Terrorism: A Philosophical research (Kluwer educational Publishers, 2003), Philosophical reviews sequence, quantity one zero one; Race, Racism, and Reparations (Cornell collage Press, 2003). He additionally serves because the Editor-in –Chief of The magazine of Ethics: a world Philosophical overview (Springer), and is the editor of and contributor to Equality and Liberty: studying Rawls and Nozick (Macmillan, 1990).
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Since responsibility (as construed in the previous chapter) is necessary for punishment, then the extent to which persons are unfree (in capitalist societies or otherwise) is the extent to which they do not qualify as punishable agents. Thus if punishment abolitionism of this variety is correct, then it would be morally wrong to punish offenders no matter what crimes they commit. This claim assumes that act utilitarianism about punishment and responsibility is implausible in its allowing for the punishment of persons who are not guilty so 5 Karl Marx, “Capital Punishment,” in L.
39 But there is even more to responsibility than the preceding paragraph indicates. One question to be raised here is the extent of the scope of responsibility for one’s actions. 40 That depends on whether or not I acted voluntarily. But what sense of “acting voluntarily” is relevant here: acting voluntarily to drink, or to drive, or both? If one is a genuine alcoholic, at least a serious one, then one suffers from a disease that mitigates substantially one’s freedom to, say, not drink. Thus one’s drinking is not under sufficient control to hold the alcoholic responsible for drinking.
G. E. Moore also defends a version of retributivism in G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1962), p. 214. Rawls, Collected Papers, p. 22. For a discussion of the differences between utilitarian and retributivist models of punishment, see Mark A. ” American Philosophical Quarterly, 29 (1992), pp. 2f. CHAPTER 2 38 to others caused by the criminal, all things considered, and based on the proper assessment of the criminal’s moral retrospective liability responsibility for the harm.