PHILOS 2Q03 Chapter Notes - Chapter Bentham: Hinder
1 Apr 2018
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When the objected aimed at is to produce immediate temporary suffering. Most common = blows (whipping: complex afflictive punishments: The principle effect consists in the consequences of the act of punishment. Has permanent consequences that may consist in the alteration destruction / destruction of the properties of a part of the body. Three kinds: affecting exterior of the person, affecting the use of organic faculties and destroying the organ itself. Ex: mutilation: restrictive punishments (territorial confinement) Those which restrain the faculties of the individual. Hinder them from receiving impressions / doing what they desire. Take from the individual their liberty with respect to certain enjoyments. Can be operated by either moral or physical restraint: imprisonment: Prevent individuals from enjoying a common right on which he has possessed before (ex: deprivation of livense: active / laborious punishments. Those that which are inflicted on individuals by obliging / compelling them to act in a particular way or exert a particular action.
