The Moral punishment instinct / Jan-Willem van Prooijen.
2018
BF319.5.P8 P76 2018
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Title
The Moral punishment instinct / Jan-Willem van Prooijen.
ISBN
9780190610005 (electronic book)
Published
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
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BF319.5.P8 P76 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
303.36
Summary
Across time and cultures, ranging from ancient hunter-gatherers, to holy scriptures, to contemporary courts of law, it has been common for people to punish offenders. Furthermore, punishment is not restricted to criminal offenders but emerges in all spheres of social life. Why is punishment so ubiquitous? Punishment also occurs among nonhuman animals for which one can question their sense of morality. Apparently, there is something specific about punishment that warrants a more focused discussion. This work proposes that people possess a moral punishment instinct, that is, a hard-wired tendency to aggress against those who violate the norms of the group.
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Across time and cultures, ranging from ancient hunter-gatherers, to holy scriptures, to contemporary courts of law, it has been common for people to punish offenders. Furthermore, punishment is not restricted to criminal offenders but emerges in all spheres of social life. Why is punishment so ubiquitous? Punishment also occurs among nonhuman animals for which one can question their sense of morality. Apparently, there is something specific about punishment that warrants a more focused discussion. This work proposes that people possess a moral punishment instinct, that is, a hard-wired tendency to aggress against those who violate the norms of the group.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 14, 2017).
Series
Perspectives on justice and morality.
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Print version: 9780190609979
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