From punishment to universalism

Punishment in Humans: From Intuitions to Institutions

Humans have a strong sense of who should be punished, when, and how. Many features of these intuitions are consistent with a simple adaptivemodel: Punishment evolved as amechanism to teach social partners how to behave in future interactions. Yet, it is clear that punishment as practiced in modern contexts transcends any biologically evolvedmechanism; it also depends on cultural institutions in...

Perdurantism, Universalism, and Quantifiers

I argue that the conjunction of perdurantism (the view that objects are temporally extended) and universalism (the thesis that any old class of things has a mereological fusion) gives rise to undesired complications when combined with certain plausible assumptions concerning the semantics of tensed statements.

NICHOLAS KAHN - FOGEL Western Universalism and African

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The assault on universalism: how to destroy the welfare state.

From punishment to education--juvenile delinquency in Romanian criminal law.

For centuries children were considered "mini-adults". Together with expressing the need to educate children and putting a stop to their integration in the work field from the earliest years the 19th century also displayed a new image of the child, which clearly separates him from the adults. In this paper the authors analyze the Romanian legislation addressing juvenile delinquency in criminal t...