Moral Cognition in Criminal Punishment

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Author	Jason R. Steffen
Position	Assistant Public Defender, State of Minnesota Board of Public Defense; and Adjunct Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Pages	143-179







Scholars often appeal to Kant in defending a retributivist view of criminal

punishment. In this paper, I join other scholars in rejecting this interpretation as

    

, a section of the . I then turn to the ,

          

    

should cause us to rethink the importance of lex talionis (an integral retributive



punishable criminals than we might otherwise be inclined to do. I end with a few







Punishment, Kant, Freedom, Virtue, Lex Talionis





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        





 ...............................

 ................................

 ....

D. Objections to the Preceding Interpretation ...................................

E. Conclusion .....................................................................................



 ...........................

 ......................................................

 ...................................





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    

 

         

          





          



          

           

       

   

 



 





      

      

      

       

         

        die     

3

         

      

 

       

           

        

     



 Seee.g.JIntroductionin

  in

   



    

            



 Id

 

supra

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Moral Cognition in Criminal Punishment



         











  

             

          

             



      right    





              

              

            

  

            

           





            

 



 

 

  





            

        

 

  because he has committed a crime      



 

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

 

 lex talionis   

 supra

 Id. 

 Id. 

 Id. 

 Id. juslex

jus              

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