PHIL 345 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Moral Agency, Egalitarianism
13 Jul 2017
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Main points goal: to show that: retributivists who don"t care about the di erential punishment of blacks ought to care, those retributivists who do care about di erential punishment often care about it for the wrong reasons. Proportional retributivism: legal institutions should punish o enders as much as they morally deserve and no more than they morally deserve. Moral desert: person p deserves treatment t in virtue of p"s desert bases (dp) P"s desert bases are determined merely by facts about p. merely about what you did alone without comparison to others. P"s treatment is determined merely by facts about p. P"s desert bases may include facts about how p stands in a relevant ratlins to other people with respect to some x. P"s treatment is determined in part by how q, r, s are treated. ie: curve: your grade in comparison to other: what you get depends on what other people received.
