Jeffrie G Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1012692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrie G Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrie G |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY J G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Punishment, Forgiveness, and Mercy
Forgiveness and mercy are often thought of as acts that we perform or gifts that we bestow. In this essay the author focuses on character and explores the implications for punishment if one focuses on having a character that is merciful and forgiving in disposition. He argues that the tension that is often thought to exist between justice, on the one hand, and forgiveness and mercy, on the other, is lessened by focusing on the virtue of having a …
Marxism and Retribution
Philosophers have written at great length about the moral problems involved in punishing the innocent–particularly as these problems raise obstacles to an acceptance of the moral theory of Utilitarianism. Punishment of an innocent man in order to bring about good social consequences is, at the very least, not always clearly wrong on utilitarian principles. The Kantian position on the issue of punishing the innocent, and the many ways in which the…
Marxism and Retribution
Punishment in general has been defended as a means either of ameliorating or of intimidating. Now what right have you to punish me for the amelioration or intimidation of others? And besides there is history—there is such a thing as statistics—which prove with the most complete evidence that since Cain the world has been neither intimidated nor ameliorated by punishment Quite the contrary. From the point of view of abstract right, there is only o…
Retribution, Justice, and Therapy
Punishment and the Moral Emotions
This volume presents the author's most recent ideas on punishment, forgiveness, and the emotions of resentment, shame, guilt, remorse, love, and jealousy. In the author's view, conscious rationales of principle - such as crime control or giving others what in justice they deserve - do not always drive our decisions to punish or condemn others for wrongdoing. The chapters explore, from philosophical and religious perspectives, a variety of moral e…
Religion and the Criminal Law
Christianity and Criminal Punishment
Christianity organizes thinking about punishment around the value of love. Love requires a focus on the common good and on benefit to the soul or character. Punishments harmful to the soul are to be avoided, and punishments beneficial to the soul are to be favored. This has important implications for the death penalty
Two Cheers for Vindictiveness
Vindictiveness (the desire for revenge) is commonly condemned as irrational, immoral, and deserving of no place in civilized legal systems. It is here argued that this condemnation may be hasty - may often reflect more what we think we ought to say than what we actually feel and believe. After an attempt to rehabilitate, at least partially, the reputation of the vindictive passions, the article closes with some serious cautions with respect to th…
Character, Liberty, and Law
Legal Moralism and Liberalism
Retribution Reconsidered. More Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Preface. Why have Criminal Law at All? Retributivism, Moral Education, and the Liberal State. Does Kant have a Theory of Punishment? Getting Even: The Role of the Victim. The Justice of Economics. Blackmail: A Preliminary Inquiry. Consent, Coercion and Hard Choices. Rationality and Constraints on Democratic Rule. Constitutionalism, Moral Skepticism, and Religious Belief. Kantian Autonomy and Divine Commands. War, Self-Defense, and Defense of Othe…
Retribution Reconsidered
Consent, Coercion, and Hard Choices
Retributivism, Moral Education, and the Liberal State
Person to Person
Desert
Forgiveness and Mercy
Forgiveness and mercy are regarded as virtues in many moral and religious traditions, although different traditions will emphasize different aspects. The Christian tradition, for example, tends to emphasize purity of heart as the core of the virtue of forgiveness, whereas the Judaic tradition gives priority to the social dimension of reintegration into the covenanted community. Forgiveness involves the overcoming of anger and resentment, and merc…
Books in Review
Mercy and Legal Justice
Internal and External Questions . The most profound questions in ethics, social philosophy, and the philosophy of law are foundational; i.e., they are questions that call the entire framework of our ordinary evaluations into doubt in order to determine to what degree, if at all, that framework can be rationally defended. Such questions, called “external” by Rudolf Carnap, are currently dominating my own philosophical reflections and are forcing m…
Retributivism, moral education, and the liberal state
What is the connection between punishment and immorality? Deterrence theorists maintain that punishment scares people away from immorality. Retributive theorists claim that punishment makes sure that wrongdoers suffer in proportion to their moral iniquity and thereby give up any unfair advantage over others their wrongdoing may have won them.1 Moral education theorists—who seem to be dominating philosophical discussion these days—maintain that pu…
Rights and Borderline Cases
Consent, Coercion, and Hard Choices
Many, including the author of this article, have quoted approvingly Hume’s criticism of the Lockean notion of tacit consent as a foundation for political obligation. Many have quoted the passage without comment, as though it constituted a self-explanatory and self-evidently sound refutation of such doctrines. This should not be the case, however, for the argument demands analysis, criticism and perhaps even rejection in part. This article begins …
Retribution, Justice, and Therapy
Retribution, Justice, and Therapy
Certain contemporary forms of organic therapy used in an attempt to correct or control deviance strike terror into the hearts of traditional liberals and humanists. Psychosurgery, particularly, has experienced a resurgence of popularity, and its use has been advocated on impulsively violent persons and on so-called “hyperkinetic” children. It is useful to begin a discussion of organic therapies with the absolutely clear paradigmatic case of psych…
Incompetence and Paternalism
Two Cheers for Vindictiveness
Vindictiveness (the desire for revenge) is commonly condemned as irrational, immoral, and deserving of no place in civilized legal systems. It is here argued that this condemnation may be hasty - may often reflect more what we think we ought to say than what we actually feel and believe. After an attempt to rehabilitate, at least partially, the reputation of the vindictive passions, the article closes with some serious cautions with respect to th…
Retribution Reconsidered. More Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Preface. Why have Criminal Law at All? Retributivism, Moral Education, and the Liberal State. Does Kant have a Theory of Punishment? Getting Even: The Role of the Victim. The Justice of Economics. Blackmail: A Preliminary Inquiry. Consent, Coercion and Hard Choices. Rationality and Constraints on Democratic Rule. Constitutionalism, Moral Skepticism, and Religious Belief. Kantian Autonomy and Divine Commands. War, Self-Defense, and Defense of Othe…
Criminal Punishment and Psychiatric Fallacies
Nowhere is this general tendency expressed by Brandeis more prominent than in the area of criminal law. In spite of the reasoned warnings of some writers, we are greeted by a continuous stream of books and articles from psychiatrists and psychoanalysts (and their judicial followers) with one common theme: Criminal punishment is an unscientific survival of barbarism and must be replaced by a system of individual and social therapy. To believe othe…
A paradox in Locke's Theory of Natural Rights
There are certain recurring objections to Locke's theory of legitimate government and the conception of natural rights on which it is based. These objections generally take the form of showing that most of Locke's claims in the Second Treatise stand largely as ad hoc assertions, defended—if at all—not by philosophical argumentation but by appeals to theology or intuition. These criticisms might be called external criticisms of Locke's theory beca…
Criminal Punishment and Psychiatric Fallacies
Nowhere is this general tendency expressed by Brandeis more prominent than in the area of criminal law. In spite of the reasoned warnings of some writers, we are greeted by a continuous stream of books and articles from psychiatrists and psychoanalysts (and their judicial followers) with one common theme: Criminal punishment is an unscientific survival of barbarism and must be replaced by a system of individual and social therapy. To believe othe…
Kant
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Kant : The Philosophy of Right. By Jeffrie G. Murphy. (London : Macmillan : Philosophers in Perspective ; general editor, A. D. Woozley. 1970. Pp. 186. Price £1.50. Papermac, 50p.) Keith Ward Keith Ward Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 21, Issue 84, July 1971, Pages 272–273, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218141 Published: 01 July 1971
Kant's Principle of Personality
Kant
Kant's Political Thought
Hume and Kant on the social contract
Retribution, Justice, and Therapy
Certain contemporary forms of organic therapy used in an attempt to correct or control deviance strike terror into the hearts of traditional liberals and humanists. Psychosurgery, particularly, has experienced a resurgence of popularity, and its use has been advocated on impulsively violent persons and on so-called “hyperkinetic” children. It is useful to begin a discussion of organic therapies with the absolutely clear paradigmatic case of psych…
Incompetence and Paternalism
Retribution, justice, and therapy
Marxism and Retribution
Cruel and Unusual Punishments
Consent, Coercion, and Hard Choices
Many, including the author of this article, have quoted approvingly Hume’s criticism of the Lockean notion of tacit consent as a foundation for political obligation. Many have quoted the passage without comment, as though it constituted a self-explanatory and self-evidently sound refutation of such doctrines. This should not be the case, however, for the argument demands analysis, criticism and perhaps even rejection in part. This article begins …
Retribution, Justice, and Therapy
Rights and Borderline Cases
Retributivism, moral education, and the liberal state
What is the connection between punishment and immorality? Deterrence theorists maintain that punishment scares people away from immorality. Retributive theorists claim that punishment makes sure that wrongdoers suffer in proportion to their moral iniquity and thereby give up any unfair advantage over others their wrongdoing may have won them.1 Moral education theorists—who seem to be dominating philosophical discussion these days—maintain that pu…
Mercy and Legal Justice
Internal and External Questions . The most profound questions in ethics, social philosophy, and the philosophy of law are foundational; i.e., they are questions that call the entire framework of our ordinary evaluations into doubt in order to determine to what degree, if at all, that framework can be rationally defended. Such questions, called “external” by Rudolf Carnap, are currently dominating my own philosophical reflections and are forcing m…
Books in Review
Forgiveness and Mercy
Forgiveness and mercy are regarded as virtues in many moral and religious traditions, although different traditions will emphasize different aspects. The Christian tradition, for example, tends to emphasize purity of heart as the core of the virtue of forgiveness, whereas the Judaic tradition gives priority to the social dimension of reintegration into the covenanted community. Forgiveness involves the overcoming of anger and resentment, and merc…
Person to Person
Desert
Retribution Reconsidered
Consent, Coercion, and Hard Choices
Retributivism, Moral Education, and the Liberal State
Retribution Reconsidered. More Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Preface. Why have Criminal Law at All? Retributivism, Moral Education, and the Liberal State. Does Kant have a Theory of Punishment? Getting Even: The Role of the Victim. The Justice of Economics. Blackmail: A Preliminary Inquiry. Consent, Coercion and Hard Choices. Rationality and Constraints on Democratic Rule. Constitutionalism, Moral Skepticism, and Religious Belief. Kantian Autonomy and Divine Commands. War, Self-Defense, and Defense of Othe…
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