Punishment and the Moral Emotions: Essays in Law, Morality, and Religion

by Jeffrie G. Murphy

Book Overview

This collection of essays presents Jeffrie G. Murphy's most recent ideas on punishment, forgiveness, and the emotions of resentment, shame, guilt, remorse, love, and jealousy. In Murphy'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. Sometimes our decisions are in fact driven by powerful and rather base...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199764395
• ISBN13: 9780199764396
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.4" x 5.9"