The the enforcement of morality in everyday life Radzik, Linda 1970- creator Bennett, Christopher 1972- Pettigrove, Glen. Sher, George. text bibliography enk Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2020 monographic eng

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xiii, 165 p. ""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". Linda Radzik ; with Christopher Bennett, Glen Pettigrove, George Sher. Includes bibliographical references and index. Social acceptance Moral and ethical aspects Social isolation Punishment Social aspects Judgment (Ethics) HM1111 .R33 2020 9781108836067 (hbk.) 1108836062 (hbk.) 9781108799294 (pbk.) 1108799299 (hbk.) 2020014767 212025 on1155483927