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The Utilitarian Theory of Punishment

Jeffrey Kaplan 52,163 5 years ago
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Surprisingly, Utilitarianism gets more-or-less intuitive results when it comes to what cases of punishment are morally permissible. But to gets those results in a way that diverges from our ordinary moral intuitions. Technically, this is a lecture about chapter 13 ofJeremy Bentham's Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

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