PHIL 251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Ted Honderich
6 May 2016
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They deserve to suffer lawrence h. davis (r)- is some intrinsic value in the suffering of the guilty. (r) is often cited as the hallmark of the retributivist approach to punishment, which is still in considerable disfavor. 1. (r) has often been confused with a rather different principle. 2. (r) is consistent with a utilitarian theory of obligation. 3. commitment to (r) is consistent with commitment to the view that one ought never to impose suffering. 4. even if combined with opposition to punishment, commitment to (r) would not be empty or without possible value. 5. at the very least, (r) might have the virtue of being true. Sometimes people say that a man deserves something and intend no more than it is right that he get it. To attempt to argue that a man"s punishment is justified, by saying in this sense that he deserves it, is obviously pointless (punishmenpt,.
