Moral and nonmoral options in capital punishment.
Igor Primoratz Any plausible position in the ethics of war and political violence in general will include the requirement of protection of civilians (non-combatants, common citizens) against lethal.
Stephen Nathanson has shown that the factual and moral beliefs on which the death penalty supports depend are mistaken and hence needs to be abolished. To prove his argument he proceeded in two stages. The first was a consideration of the death penalty in theory whereby advocates argue that it is the best deterrent of murders and thus saves live.
Alan Goldman in his essay Plain Sex posits two fundamental postulates: first, “Many ethical disagreements hinge upon disagreements about facts, not about moral principles”, and second, “Being a moral objectivist needn’t mean being morally conservative” (Igor Primoratz, 1999).
Similarly, Igor Primoratz says that punishment is morally justified as long as it is just and that it is just when it is delivered to a person who has committed an offense.
Study 19 death penalty- kyle flashcards from kyle n. on StudyBlue.. 6 objections that igor primoratz argues against in defense of the death penalty. . capital punishment is ethically wrong because it violates the right to life of the person who is being executed but primoratz believes one only has the right to life if they respect.
Igor Primoratz - 1989 - Philosophy 64 (248):187 - 205. Revisiting Kantian Retributivism to Construct a Justification of Punishment. Jane Johnson - 2008 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 2 (3):291-307.
Igor Primoratz is the author of Ethics and Sex (3.59 avg rating, 32 ratings, 3 reviews, published 1999), Terrorism (3.92 avg rating, 12 ratings, 0 review.