Communication, Expression, and the Justification of Punishment
Some philosophers (Duff, Hampton) conceive of punishment as a way of communicating a message to the punished and argue that this communicative function justifies the harm of punishment. I object to communicative theories because punishment seems intuitively justified in cases in which it fails as a...
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Athens Institute for Education and Research
2014-10-01
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| Series: | Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts |
| Online Access: | http://www.atiner.gr/journals/humanities/2014-1-4-2-Engen.pdf |