Cruelty, Dignity, and Determinism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4766686 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gwynn Nettler (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1959 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 375 |
| Publication date | 1959-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2089386 |
| OpenAlex | W2323351690 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Resolution of controversy about will and consequent moral responsibility requires that questions about these subjects be phrased as propositions amenable to verification. Translation of such questions into verifiable form permits testing for the consistency of assumption used in the explanation and control of behavior and for the alleged effects of belief in these assumptions. One such test is reported of such consequences. Indeterminists have argued that the accordance of to man requires this assumption. Where human is defined in a fashion that does not beg the question of free will--that is, nontautologically as resistance to revenge and the infliction of painit is found that dignity is more likely to be accorded humans by determinists than by indeterminists. Therefore, other studies of the alleged consequences of the ascription of will and moral responsibility may show these ideas to be irrelevant, if not inimical, to the achievement of commonly professed social goals
Criminology · Cruelty · Determinism · Dignity · Epistemology · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Free Will and Agency · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
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Free Will, Determinism, and Punishment
Problem attribution and intervention. The interpretation of problem causations and solutions in regard of Brickman et al
Beliefs in Free Will and Determinism and Lack of Relation to Punishment Rationale and Magnitude
Attitudes Toward Punishment in Relation to Beliefs in Free Will and Determinism
Alienation, Structural Strain, and Political Deviancy
Who Called the Cops
Belief in Free Will
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1967 - 2014 (48) |
| Highly cited | No |