{"id":2007,"date":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2012\/01\/12\/capital-punishment-killing-doing-right-feeling-guilty-taking-responsibility-the-philosophical-psychology-of-the-executioner\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"capital-punishment-killing-doing-right-feeling-guilty-taking-responsibility-the-philosophical-psychology-of-the-executioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2012\/01\/12\/capital-punishment-killing-doing-right-feeling-guilty-taking-responsibility-the-philosophical-psychology-of-the-executioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Punishment: Killing, Doing Right, Feeling Guilty, Taking Responsibility &#8230;.. The Philosophical psychology of the Executioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Objective\/Territory \u2013 In relation to the experience on an executioner, I wish to map our conventional views of human responsibility and the sanctity of life, and question whether they can exist rationally in our contemporary world. From this, I shall be assessing the role of an executioner and exploring the state of mind required to perform such a difficult and controversial job. In doing so, I shall be questioning how anyone, even in 21st century society, can so willingly take the life of another human being. What are the consequences of such a job? <\/p>\n<p>Sources \u2013 To achieve this, I shall be looking at Kant\u2019s Moral Theory, and looking at the concepts of duty and universalisation and asking whether they can be achieved through the experience of an executioner. Moreover, I shall be using Hegel\u2019s philosophy, particularly to his concern with human intention and responsibility and questioning whether an executioner should be solely responsible for the killing of life. Additionally, I shall be exploring the Utilitarian position, which Mill shall be representing, to consider if welfare is achieved in society through the performance of an executioner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Marwood, 2012, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,22,128],"tags":[507,91,37],"class_list":["post-2007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-592","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-capital-punishment","tag-death","tag-morality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}