All Outputs (24)

Corporal punishment (2003)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2003). Corporal punishment. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 6(3), 295-316. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1026072527441

A study of moral arguments for and against the use of corporal punishment in a judicial content. It is argued that corporal punishment is not inevitably more cruel or demeanial than some conventionlly prefered punitive methods.

On caring about one's posthumous reputation (2001)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (2001). On caring about one's posthumous reputation. American Philosophical Quarterly, 38(2), 209-220

Focuses on the concern for posthumous celebrity. Efforts of some to be remembered after death; Triumph over death with the survival of the significance of ones work or deed; Caution on the foolishness of the effort if the deed does not promote good v... Read More about On caring about one's posthumous reputation.

Interpreting the categorical imperative. (1998)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (1998). Interpreting the categorical imperative. British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 6(2), 223-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/09608788808570992

Understanding the moral phenomenology of the Third Reich. (1998)
Journal Article
Scarre, G. (1998). Understanding the moral phenomenology of the Third Reich. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1(4), 423-445. https://doi.org/10.1023/a%3A1009982506922

This paper discusses the issue of German moral responsibility for the Holocaust in the light of the thesis of Daniel Goldhagen and others that inherited negative stereotypes of Jews and Jewishness were prime causal factors contributing to the genocid... Read More about Understanding the moral phenomenology of the Third Reich..