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Deep thoughts on virtue and punishment

By Douglas A. Berman

Anyone interested in deep and different views in the never-ending punishment theory debate ought to check out this new paper on SSRN.  The paper by Ekow Yankah is titled "Virtue's Domain," and here is the abstract:If at the end of your life you were told you had fulfilled all your moral duties, you would be proud. If you were told you only fulfilled your moral duties, you would be less proud.  We all aim to do more than fulfill our duties.  We wish to have been more generous than obligatory, more patient, more wise... in short, we wish to be virtuous. This insight, that there is more to moral well-being than either our moral duties or good consequences, is central to modern virtue ethics.  In its important neo-Aristotelian strain, virtue ethics advocates that success in life is also determined by living an ethically rich life, showing sound practical reasoning and exhibiting the human virtues...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on September 22, 2008 (boomark / email).