Yankah begins (excluding the introduction) with a bit of a primer of how film and media has distorted our perception of good versus evil in this world. Film noir has circumvented that but in a bit of a sinister or saddening tone, however. Moral complexity has evolved in media since…

The passage begins with Edwards stating the problem of what we ought to criminalize and the implications these crimes bring about. He starts categorizing actions between subcategories (reason and permissibility through normative and motivating reasons). Edwards continues to develop the infrastructure of his argument by identifying means and ends of…

Ripstein’s “Beyond the Harm Principle”, as a whole, surrounds a deconstruction of the Harm Principle and its replacement with Ripstein’s Sovereignty Principle. The first half of the passage began with the apparent flaws of Mill’s Harm Principle. The most notable of the allegorical exceptions is the example of the uninvited…

The first few pages seek to define what offense is in and of itself and in comparison to harm. It seems that offense runs parallel to harm in that they are truly different aspects of “wrong-doing”. But offense is described as less painful than direct harm. However, offense can lead…

Hey, my name’s Joseph (as the title says) and I can’t believe I already missed an assignment for a class! Firstly, this isn’t about me, but I wanted to say the name Nunez was very familiar and I realized once Professor Lindeman said “he’s also a philosopher” that he was…