Enforcing social norms: The morality of public shaming.
Public shaming plays an important role in upholding valuable social norms. But, under what conditions, if any, is it morally justifiable? Our aim in this paper is systemically to investigate the morality of public shaming, so as to provide an answer to this neglected question. We develop an overarch...
| Publicado en: | European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 997 - 1017 |
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