Tag: Retributive Ethics
Obligations and the Obligatory
What is the connection between our moral rights and duties and what we ought to do? What principles bridge these different forms of moral talk?...
Retributive Ethics
Begin with the principle:
It is impermissible to harm others (other things being equal)......
Means and Ends
Consider this principle proposed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in The Realm of Rights.
The Sole-Means Principle for Permissibility: If the only means X has of doing Beta is doing Alpha , then it would be permissible for X to do beta if and only if it would permissible for X to do alpha.
If the Sole Means Principle (SMP) ...
Self Defense
If we have any rights, we surely have the right to self-defense. And yet self-defense has proven very puzzling to Rights theorists....
The Retributive Theory of Property
Retributive ethics derives property rights from conventionally agreed to permissions to harm others. ...