Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation Tabensky Pedro Alexis
Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation Tabensky Pedro Alexis This collection embodies a debate that explores what could be…
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Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, Meaning and the Ethical Limits of Condemnation Tabensky Pedro Alexis
This collection embodies a debate that explores what could be characterised as the tension between judging and understanding. Martha Nussbaum's essayEquity and Mercy included in this collection, is the philosophical starting point of this debate, and Bernhard Schlink's novel The Reader - a novel exploring the tension between judging and understanding, among other things - is used as a case study by most contributors. It seems that after a particular threshold of understanding of the basic facts leading to a given moral transgression, the more we understand the context and motives leading to crime, the more likely we are to abstain from harsh retributive judgement.
Some contributors, situated at one end of the spectrum of views represented in this collection, argue for the wholesale elimination of our practices of retribution in the light of the tension between judging and understanding,