TY - BOOK ID - 85644187 TI - The ethics of social punishment : the enforcement of morality in everyday life PY - 2020 SN - 110887066X 1108876420 1108873340 1108836062 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social acceptance KW - Judgment (Ethics) KW - Punishment KW - Social isolation. KW - Exclusion, Social KW - Isolation, Social KW - Social exclusion KW - Social psychology KW - Alienation (Social psychology) KW - Social distance KW - Penalties (Criminal law) KW - Penology KW - Corrections KW - Impunity KW - Retribution KW - Moral judgment KW - Ethics KW - Acceptance, Social KW - Approval, Social KW - Social approval KW - Social adjustment KW - Social interaction KW - Social skills KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85644187 AB - How do we punish others socially, and should we do so? In her 2018 Descartes Lectures for Tilburg University, Linda Radzik explores the informal methods ordinary people use to enforce moral norms, such as telling people off, boycotting businesses, and publicly shaming wrongdoers on social media. Over three lectures, Radzik develops an account of what social punishment is, why it is sometimes permissible, and when it must be withheld. She argues that the proper aim of social punishment is to put moral pressure on wrongdoers to make amends. Yet the permissibility of applying such pressure turns on the tension between individual desert and social good, as well as the possession of an authority to punish. Responses from Christopher Bennett, George Sher and Glen Pettigrove challenge Radzik's account of social punishment while also offering alternative perspectives on the possible meanings of our responses to wrongdoing. Radzik replies in the closing essay. ER -