Andrew Gleeson
Brian Penrose
Brute Luck
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Chandra Kumar
Condemnatory Attitudes
Condemnatory Judgement
Contra-causal Freedom
determinism and responsibility
Emma Rooksby
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ethical implications of understanding wrongdoing
Hanna's Actions
Home Town
Indeterminism Debate
Jonathan Mckeown-Green
Jones's Behaviour
Journal Law
Kai Nielsen
legal theory
Marc Fellman
Martha Nussbaum
Mental State Explanations
Merciful Attitude
Mitigating Circumstances
Moral Complexity
Moral Enormity
moral philosophy
narrative ethics
Pedro Tabensky
Peta Bowden
phenomenology of judgement
Raimond Gaita
Reactive Attitudes
Retributive Ethic
Retributive Judgement
retributive justice
Richard H. Weisberg
Richard III
Samantha Vice
Shakespeare's Richard III
Thaddeus Metz
Type-1 Pleas
Vice Versa
Ward E. Jones
Wide Reflective Equilibrium
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138356276
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This collection embodies a debate that explores what could be characterised as the tension between judging and understanding. It seems that after a particular threshold of understanding of the basic facts leading to a given moral transgression, the more we understand the context and motives leading to crime, the more likely we are to abstain from harsh retributive judgement. Martha Nussbaum‘s essayEquity and Mercy included in this collection, is the philosophical starting point of this debate, and Bernhard Schlink‘s novel The Reader - a novel exploring the tension between judging and understanding, among other things - is used as a case study by most contributors. Some contributors, situated at one end of the spectrum of views represented in this collection, argue for the wholesale elimination of our practices of retribution in the light of the tension between judging and understanding, while contributors on the other side of the spectrum argue that the tension does not actually exist. A whole array of intermediate positions, including Nussbaum‘s, are represented. This anthology is comprised of nearly all specially commissioned essays bringing together work dealing with the moral, metaphysical, epistemological and phenomenological issues required for properly understanding whether in fact there is a tension between judging and understanding and what the moral and legal implications may be of accepting or rejecting this tension.
Pedro Alexis Tabensky is Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Rhodes University, South Africa
