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Retribution Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

John Wilson
John Wilson
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University of Oxford
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I am grateful for Professor Manser's criticisms of my brief remarks on f retribution, and in particular for his concluding challenge (‘ … what J injury, on his account, did Adam and Eve do to God in the Garden of r Eden?’), because they bring out the central point I was trying to make—that ‘Retribution aims at a restoration of balance by compensation’ (p. 523). I interpreted ‘compensation’ widely, to include the disadvantaging (punishment) a person should suffer ‘if somebody breaks the rules of a particular deal’ (ibid.), in order that the proper status of the participants be restored. The injury done by Adam and Eve to God, and their punishment, come under this heading.

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Discussion
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Philosophy , Volume 62 , Issue 239 , January 1987 , pp. 94 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1987

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References

1 Philosophy 58 (1983), 521–527.Google ScholarPubMed

2 Philosophy 60 (1985), 255–257.Google ScholarPubMed

3 Ibid., 161–174.