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The Ontological Fragility of Retributive Justice
The provided text, "The Ontological Fragility of Retributive Justice," argues that disagreements over concepts like justice and retribution are not technical but ontological, meaning they stem from fundamentally different background assumptions rather than simple miscommunication. The author employs the Language Insufficiency Hypothesis (LIH) to explain how clarifying terms such as choice, agency, responsibility, and desert often fractures their meaning instead of leading to consensus, as these terms rely on incompatible, assumed moral universes. To illustrate this fragility, the text uses a…
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