Alexander Pruss's Blog

There is an interesting philosophical literature on whether it is appropriate to punish someone who has amnesia with respect to the wrong th...

I’ve always found punishment and (to a lesser extent) reward puzzling. Why is it that when someone does something wrong is there moral reaso...

It is always unjust to punish without the right kind of authority over those that one punishes. Sometimes that authority may be given to us...

There is no strict duty to reward a person who has done a supererogatory thing. Otherwise, engaging in generosity would be a way of imposing...

On one family of theories of the atonement, the harsh treatment that justice called for in the light of our sins is imposed on Christ and th...

The following argument is valid: (Premise) When one gets one's just deserts, one gets what one deserves. (Premise) One c...

Omnirationality is the divine attribute in virtue of which when God does A , he does it for all the non-preempted reasons that in fac...

Christ bore the suffering due for our sins, in our place. One might worry whether this makes any moral sense. Assume a retributive vie...