Punishment and the moral emotions: essays in law, morality, and religion

This volume presents the author's most recent ideas on punishment, forgiveness, and the emotions of resentment, shame, guilt, remorse, love, and jealousy. In the author's view, conscious rationales of principle - such as crime control or giving others what in justice they deserve - do not...

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Main Author: Murphy, Jeffrie G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford University Press c2012
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:This volume presents the author's most recent ideas on punishment, forgiveness, and the emotions of resentment, shame, guilt, remorse, love, and jealousy. In the author's view, conscious rationales of principle - such as crime control or giving others what in justice they deserve - do not always drive our decisions to punish or condemn others for wrongdoing. The chapters explore, from philosophical and religious perspectives, a variety of moral emotions and their relationship to punishment and condemnation or to decisions to lessen punishment or condemnation
Physical Description:xxiii, 322 p.
ISBN:9780190267575
DOI:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199764396.001.0001

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