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<p>Adam Kolber’s book, Punishment for the Greater Good, offers a powerful argument for the claim that retributivism is false. This paper reconstructs the argument and offers an objection. The objection involves rejecting a particular view that Kolber offers about the rationality of an intention to punish, a view according to which one cannot rationally intend to punish without a high degree of credence that punishing is justified. It is argued that this is too high a standard for the rationality of intention.</p>

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Kolber on the Justificatory Standard of Proof

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    2025年8月6日

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  • Gideon Yaffe

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Adam Kolber’s book, Punishment for the Greater Good, offers a powerful argument for the claim that retributivism is false. This paper reconstructs the argument and offers an objection. The objection involves rejecting a particular view that Kolber offers about the rationality of an intention to punish, a view according to which one cannot rationally intend to punish without a high degree of credence that punishing is justified. It is argued that this is too high a standard for the rationality of intention.