Wrongdoing and the Moral Emotions provides an account of how we might
effectively address wrongdoing given challenges to the legitimacy of
anger and retribution that arise from ethical considerations and from
concerns about free will. The issue is introduced in Chapter 1.
Chapter 2 asks how we might conceive of blame without retribution, and
proposes an account of blame as moral protest, whose function is to
secure forward-looking goals such as the moral reform of the wrongdoer
and reconciliation in relationships. Chapter 3 considers whether it's
possible to justify effectively dealing those who pose dangerous
threats if they do not deserve to be harmed, and contends that
wrongfully posing a threat is the core condition for the legitimacy of
defensive harming. Chapter 4 provides an account of how to treat
criminals without a retributive justification for punishment, and
argues for an account in which the right of self-defense provides
justification for measures such as preventative detention. Chapter 5
considers how we might forgive if wrongdoers don't basically deserve
the pain of being resented, which forgiveness would then renounce, and
proposes that forgiveness be conceived instead as renunciation of the
stance of moral protest. Chapter 6 considers how personal
relationships might function without retributive anger having a role
in responding to wrongdoing, and contends that the stance of moral
protest, supplemented with non-retributive emotions, is sufficient.
Chapter 7 surveys the options for theistic and atheistic attitudes
regarding the fate of humanity in a deterministic universe, and
defends an impartial hope for humanity.
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ISBN
9780192661081
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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