02017cam a2200337 i 4500 on1155483927 OCoLC ta 212025s2020 enk b 001 0 eng 2020014767 9781108836067 (hbk.) 1108836062 (hbk.) 9781108799294 (pbk.) 1108799299 (hbk.) (OCoLC)1155483927 HM1111 .R33 2020 Radzik, Linda, 1970- The ethics of social punishment : the enforcement of morality in everyday life / Linda Radzik ; with Christopher Bennett, Glen Pettigrove, George Sher. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiii, 165 p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ""This volume makes social punishment the central category of analysis. The philosophical literature on punishment is so wholly concentrated on the state's responses to crime that authors sometimes dismiss talk of punishment in everyday life as merely metaphorical. But this is mistaken. Legal norms are not the only ones that society enforces and the mechanisms of law are not the only methods of enforcement that society uses. This work argues that at least many instances of rebuke, social withdrawal, boycotting, and public shaming should be interpreted as cases of punishment. It argues that the general justifying aim of informal social punishments, such as these, is to morally pressure wrongdoers to make amends. Yet the legitimacy of using social punishment also turns on the tension between individual desert and social good, as well as the possession of an authority to punish". Social acceptance Moral and ethical aspects. Social isolation. Punishment Social aspects. Judgment (Ethics) Bennett, Christopher, 1972- Pettigrove, Glen. Sher, George. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 PNLIB PNLIB GEN 2021-06-17 HM1111 .R33 2020 PNLIB21060170 2021-06-17 2021-06-17 BK 356 356