telishment
English
Etymology
Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “result; end; loosely, the greater good”) and the English (pun)ishment. Compare telish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɛlɪʃmənt/
Noun
telishment (usually uncountable, plural telishments)
- (consequentialism, uncountable) The practice or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence.
- 1955, John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules” in The Philosophical Review LXIV, № 1, page 11:
- Try to imagine, then, an institution (which we may call “telishment”) which is such that the officials set up by it have authority to arrange a trial for the condemnation of an innocent man whenever they are of the opinion that doing so would be in the best interests of society.
- 1955, John Rawls, “Two Concepts of Rules” in The Philosophical Review LXIV, № 1, page 11:
- (consequentialism, countable) An instance of telishing.
- 1961, John Hospers, Human Conduct: An Introduction to the Problems of Ethics, page 457:
- And I would say the same about punishments — not telishments, but punishments — in which the penalty is far too severe.
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Further reading
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