PHIL 2550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Retributive Justice
2 Mar 2017
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Years later dylan learns this is a lie and feels hurt. Moral emotions as those that are associated with paradigm cases of moral rules . Prosocial emotions: empathy, sympathy, concern, and compassion. People are normally angry at rule breaks and we expect them to feel guilty. They are both associated with violations of autonomy norms. Anger is caused by a judgement of transgression and it generates an inclination for aggression and retributive punishment (125) In studies, the prevailing cognitive antecedent is the judgement that the situation is illegitimate, wrong, unfair, contrary to what ought to be (125) Gilt is caused by a judgement that a has responsibility for harm to b, and it generates an inclination in a to make amends to b (135) When people feel guilty, they confess, make reparations, criticize themselves, or, less frequently, seek punishment (137) Anger evidence suggests that anger can motivate good behaviour in others, because it motivates people to avoid angry responses (132)
