CRM 1301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cesare Beccaria, Rationality, Extricate
11 Apr 2020
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Import of uniformity (to the theory of punishment) Intelligence (in particular rationality ) is a core feature of who we are. Humans are rational beings (thinking) we"re intelligent. Man"s capacity to think comes from this. Each of us, according to the classical school. Have free will (all that we do is free will) every action or inaction in a product of free will. When you choose, you"re choosing for your best interest, when choosing you"re trying to increase your well being and welfare. The key to moving society forward is through education. Because of intelligence, which is our core feature. One may discern a scale of misdeeds wherein the highest degree consists of acts that are directly destructive of society and the lowest of the least possible injustice against one of its individual members. Between these extremes lie all actions contrary to the public greed, which are called crimes, and they diminish imperceptibly from the highest to the lowest .
