PHIL 262 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Victims Family, System On A Chip
8 Mar 2018
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Retribution - seeks to repay perpetrator what s/he is due, punishment imposed is the appropriate response to crime. Vengeance - aims to satisfy rage of victim, victim"s family, or society. What happens is determined by what is emotionally or psychologically satisfying to victim or those related to person harmed. Focus is on outcome, as opposed to means to judgment. Objectives of punishment that tend to be forward-looking or utilitarian in nature, rehab, incapacitation, deterrence. Mentioned retribution is a fourth objective, backward-looking (for the most part), tells us who should be punished. Backward-looking focuses on the idea of human dignity that emphasizes we are not robots, but capable of freedom and responsible for our behavior. Punishment, as backward looking, recognized that a human being is a free being. Forward looking approach emphasizes basic respect for essential good in human beings. Questioned the role the state played - connection between social contract and right to life.
