"Punishment," writes J. E. McTaggart, " is pain and to inflict pain on any person obviously [requires] justification." But if the need to justify punishment is obvious, the manner of doing so is not. Philosophers have developed an array of diverse, often conflicting arguments to justify punitive institutions.
Gertrude Ezorsky introduces this source book of significant historical and contemporary philosophical writings on problems of punishment with her own article, "The Ethics of Punishment." She brings together systematically the important papers and relevant studies from psychology, law, and literature, and organizes them under five subtopics: concepts of punishment, the justification of punishment, strict liability, the death penalty, and alternatives to punishment.
Under these general headings forty-two papers are presented to give philosophical perspectives on punishment. Included are many (e.g., John Stuart Mill's defense of capital punishment) not generally available. This book brings together in a single volume the views of such diverse writers as Plato, St. Thomas Aquinas, Samuel Butler, Karl Marx, and Lady Barbara Wooten.
Others are J. Andenaes, K. G. Armstrong, John Austin, Kurt Baier, Jeremy Bentham, F. H. Bradley, Richard Brandt, Clarence Darrow, A. C. Ewing, Joel Feinberg, "The Hon. Mr. Gilpin," H. L. A. Hart, G. W. F. Hegel, Thomas Hobbs, Immanuel Kant, J. D. Mabbott, H. J. McCloskey, J. E. McTaggart, R. Martinson, G. E. Moore, Herbert Morris, Anthony Quinton, D. Daiches Raphael, H. Rashdall, John Rawls, W. D. Ross, Royal Commission on Capital Punishment Report 1949-53, George Bernard Shaw, T. L. S. Sprigge, and R. Wasserstrom.
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Gertrude Ezorsky is Professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.
The Ethics of Punishment
Gertrude Ezorsky
I. Concepts of Punishment
Of Punishments and Rewards
Thomas Hobbes
On Punishment
A. M. Quinton
Is Punishment Retributive?
Kurt Baier
The Expressive Function of Punishment
Joel Feinberg
II. The Justification of Punishment
1. Teleological Theories
Punishment as Cure
Plato
Hegel's Theory of Punishment
J. E. McTaggart
Utility and Punishment
Jeremy Bentham
Punishment and the Individual
H. Rashdall
A Utilitarian Reply to Dr. McCloskey
T. L. S. Sprigge
Rule Utilitarianism (I)
John Austin
Rule Utilitarianism (II)
John Rawls
Rule Utilitarianism (III)
Richard Brandt
2. Retributivism
Justice and Punishment
Immanuel Kant
Punishment as a Right
G. W. F. Hegel
The Vulgar Notion of Responsibility
F. H. Bradley
An Organic Unity
G. E. Moore
Persons and Punishment
Herbert Morris
A Non-Utilitarian Approach to Punishment
H. J. McCloskey
3. Teleological Retributivism
Whether Vengeance is Lawful
St. Thomas Aquinas
The Right to Punish
K. G. Armstrong
On "Retributivism"
A.C. Ewing
Raphael Justice
D. Daiches
Punishment
W. D. Ross
Principles of Punishment
H. L. A. Hart
Punishment
J. D. Mabbott
III. Strict Liability
Those Who Have Sinned Involuntarily
St. Thomas Aquinas
Inefficacious Punishment
Jeremy Bentham
The Rationale of Excuses
H. L. A. Hart
Strict Liability and the Criminal Law
R. Wasserstrom
The Function of the Courts
Lady B. Wooton
Changing Conceptions of Responsibility
H. L. A. Hart
IV. The Death Penalty
The Deterrent Value of Capital Punishment
Royal Commission on Capital Punishment Report 1949-53
The Hon. Mr. Gilpin
Speech Against Capital Punishment 1868
Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment 1868
John Stuart Mill
V. Alternatives to Punishment
Imprisonment
Bernard Shaw
Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited
Samuel Butler
The Paradox of Prison Reform
R. Martinson
Why Punish the Guilty?
R. Wasserstrom
Does Punishment Deter Crime
J. Andenaes
The Holdup Man
Clarence Darrow
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