Murder and normativity

Authors

  • Marek Tomeček

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26806/fd.v4i1.39

Abstract

An analysis of the lexical field murder and its neighbouring concepts shows that this concept itself contains a negative value, as opposed to the other notions. But contemporary ethics tries to localize this negativity into the predicate wrong and concentrates on its opposite, good, whose purely ethical meaning it purports to isolate. But perhaps it is more useful to view the word murder analogically to its use in the judicial process, where performative and legal consequences follow.

Published

2012-06-29

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Section

Articles