Why is revenge wrong?

Journal of Value Inquiry

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 61-69

  Uniacke, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1023/A:1004778229751     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. See Colin McGinn, in Ethics, Evil and Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 69-71. See also Adam Smith, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976), I. ii. 3.4, pp. 35-36 and VI. iii. 15, pp. 243-244.
2. See Colin McGinn, in Ethics, Evil and Fiction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 69-71. See also Adam Smith, in The Theory of Moral Sentiments (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976), I. ii. 3.4, pp. 35-36 and VI. iii. 15, pp. 243-244.
3. "Norms of Revenge," Ethics 100 (1990), p. 862.
4. nd ed. (revised), (Chicago & London: St. James, forthcoming).
5. On misdirected, indirect and, in a sense, indiscriminate revenge, see Uniacke, op. cit.
6. For use of "revenge" as little more than evening a score, see Gerry Wallace, "Wild Justice", Philosophy 70 (1995), p. 372. For uses of "revenge" which do not include actual retaliation, see Uniacke, op. cit.
7. For use of "revenge" as little more than evening a score, see Gerry Wallace, "Wild Justice", Philosophy 70 (1995), p. 372. For uses of "revenge" which do not include actual retaliation, see Uniacke, op. cit.
8. See John Kleinig, Punishment and Desert (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973).
9. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. Also see Wallace, op. cit., p. 363.
10. Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. Also see Wallace, op. cit., p. 363.
11. "Wild Justice," in Francis Bacon, Essays Civil and Moral (London: Ward, Lock and Co. Ltd., n.d.), pp. 6-7.
12. See Adam Smith, op. cit., I. ii. 3.3-8, pp. 34-38.
13. See Jeffrie Murphy and Jean Hampton, Forgiveness and Mercy (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988).
14. Ethica Eudemia: De Virtutibus et Vitiis, trans. J. Solomon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975): 1250a 40.
15. Bacon, op. cit.
16. See Elster, op. cit., pp. 871-872.
17. See Uniacke, op. cit.
18. See McGinn, op. cit., p. 70. Also see Wallace, op. cit., p. 375.
19. Uniacke, op. cit.
20. See McGinn, op. cit., pp. 74-81.
21. Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Morals, trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1991), p. 253.
22. Smith, op. cit., II .i. 5.6, p. 76.
23. Ibid.
24. See Kant, op. cit., p. 253.
25. Elster, op. cit., p. 883.
26. Ibid.
27. Ethica Nichomachea, trans. W.D. Ross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975) 1116b 25-1117a 5.
28. Smith, op. cit., II. ii. 1.4, p. 79.
29. Thanks are due to Lawrence Becker, H. J. McCloskey, and colleagues at the University of Wollongong, for helpful comments.