Necessitating Justice: Hobbes on Free Will and Punishment
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A justice system that denies free will is not based on justice.
A recent article by Cashmore (1) addressed the ways in which the criminal justice system might be affected by not recognizing free will. The Oxford philosopher Bradley (2) examined this issue from a Darwinian perspective over 100 years ago. Like Cashmore (1), he found that the nonexistence of free will undermined the retributive principle of justice (2). Bradley (2) went on to note, however, th...
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عنوان ژورنال: The European Legacy
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1084-8770,1470-1316
DOI: 10.1080/10848770500335578