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    Retributive justice must ultimately be justified in a lar... — Carmelics
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    Retributive justice must ultimately be justified in a larger moral context that shows it is plausibly grounded in, or at least connected to, other deeply held moral principles.

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    • 1.Only by being grounded in or connected to other deeply held moral principles should the intuitive appeal of retributive justice be regarded, in reflective equilibrium, as morally sound.
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    • 2.Retributive justice faces challenges that require a response.
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    • 1.Kant argues retributive punishment is a categorical imperative grounded in respect for rational agency, requiring no external moral justification.
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    • 2.Demanding retributivism justify itself through other principles commits a category error, subordinating deontological duties to consequentialist scaffolding.
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    • 3.If retribution requires external grounding, so does any foundational moral principle, collapsing into infinite regress or arbitrary stopping points.
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    • 1.Intuitionism, defended by Ross and Moore, holds that some moral truths—including desert-based punishment—are self-evident and non-inferential.
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    • 2.The reflective equilibrium model presupposes that intuitions must cohere with principles, but strong near-universal intuitions about desert may themselves constitute moral data irreducible to theory.
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    To respond to these challenges, retributive justice must ultimately be justified in a larger moral context that shows that it is plausibly grounded in, or at least connected to, other, deeply held moral principles. Only in this way should its intuitive appeal be regarded, in reflective equilibrium, as morally sound. For a discussion of the prospects for deeper justification, see section 5.
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that retributive justice must be justified in a larger moral context to respond to challenges, and that only through such grounding should its intuitive appeal be regarded as morally sound, which matches both premises and the conclusion.

    Confidence: The argument is fairly explicit: the author claims retributive justice needs broader moral grounding and gives the reason why.

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