On Punishment | Professor V. Bradley Lewis

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 3, 2023, at the 12th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, NY For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: V. Bradley Lewis is an associate professor in the School of Philosophy at Catholic University of America. He specializes in political and legal philosophy, especially that of the classical Greeks and in the Thomistic tradition, and is currently working on a book on the idea of the common good. In addition to these things he has served as a consultant on ethics to the federal government, testified before a congressional subcommittee about immigration, and currently serves as associate editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence.

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1:29.1	Bradley Lewis is Associate Professor in the School of Philosophy at Catholic University of America,
1:36.8	specializing in political and legal philosophy, especially that of the classical Greeks and to mystic tradition.
1:46.3	Currently working on a book on the idea of the common good, all of these qualify him well to speak on punishment, which certainly has something to do with the common good. So please welcome Bradley Lewis. Yes, okay. Thank you. And thank you to
1:54.0	Father Ambrose for the invitation to come here. But as a wise man once said, Father, no good deed goes unpunished.
2:07.3	So here we go.
2:12.9	Punishment, particularly in its theoretical justification, has always been among the most vexed
2:19.2	provinces of law's empire. Lawyers have tended to focus on the four classic rationales of criminal
2:27.1	punishment, retribution on the basis of which one is punished only because one deserves
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