Plato on Punishment

Achilles action Aeschylus Agamemnon agent akrasia analogy Antilochus appears aretē argue behaviour benefit benevolence Callicles Chryses claim committed complex Consequently crime criminal culpability deontological desert deterrent disposition distribution effect Erinyes eschatology Ethics evil example explain Feinberg gods Gorgias Greek happiness harm Hesiod Homeric humanitarian ignorance Iliad incurable individual injustice institution intellectualist interests interpretation ishment judge judgement justified kalon knowledge Laws legislator liability London manifest unfairness ment moral psychology myths notion objection offender Oresteia Oxford passage penal penalty penology Phaedo Philosophy Phronesis Plato Plato's Moral Theory Plato's Republic pleasure Polus principle problems Protagoras prudential argument Rawls reason reform responsibility restitution retribution retributivism retributivist reward Socrates Socratic Paradoxes soul strict utilitarian suffering suggests suppose teleological Theognis Theory of Justice theory of punishment thesis Thrasymachus timē timōria tion University Press unjust utilitarian utility vice victim victimisation virtue virtuous Vlastos wrong wrongdoing Zeus