22604 | Punishing a criminal for moral ignorance is the same as punishing someone for being blind [Epictetus] |
23368 | Perhaps we should persuade culprits that their punishment is just? [Epictetus] |
7294 | No crime and no punishment without a law [Roman law] |
23268 | We execute irredeemable people, to protect ourselves, as a deterrent, and ending a bad life [Galen] |
2380 | Punishment should only be for reform or deterrence [Hobbes] |
19867 | Reparation and restraint are the only justifications for punishment [Locke] |
19869 | Punishment should make crime a bad bargain, leading to repentance and deterrence [Locke] |
19912 | Self-defence is natural, but not the punishment of superiors by inferiors [Locke] |
12936 | There are natural rewards and punishments, like illness after over-indulgence [Leibniz] |
20002 | The death penalty is permissible, because its victims enjoyed the protection of that law [Montesquieu] |
20010 | If religion teaches determinism, penalties must be severe; if free will, then that is different [Montesquieu] |
19809 | We accept the death penalty to prevent assassinations, so we must submit to it if necessary [Rousseau] |
19810 | A trial proves that a criminal has broken the social treaty, and is no longer a member of the state [Rousseau] |
21088 | Justice asserts the death penalty for murder, from a priori laws [Kant] |
7219 | Society can punish actions which it believes to be prejudicial to others [Mill] |
20232 | Get rid of the idea of punishment! It is a noxious weed! [Nietzsche] |
24098 | Reasons that justify punishment can also justify the crime [Nietzsche] |
14814 | Execution is worse than murder, because we are using the victim, and really we are the guilty [Nietzsche] |
23852 | To punish people we must ourselves be innocent - but that undermines the desire to punish [Weil] |
6572 | Deterrence, prevention, rehabilitation and retribution can come into conflict in punishments [Fogelin] |
6573 | Retributivists say a crime can be 'paid for'; deterrentists still worry about potential victims [Fogelin] |