Orientations to the Good: Beyond Consequentialist and

Orientations to the Good: Beyond Consequentialist and Retributivist Theories of Blame

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Why should we blame the blameworthy? Wouldn't it be better to foreswear blame, embracing an ethic of unrelenting forgiveness and mercy? Christopher Franklin, assistant professor of philosophy at Grove City College (PA), discusses these questions and more during his lecture as part of the 2014-2015 Philosophy Speaker Series. Franklin argues that we should promote, enjoy, contemplate, and be for what is good. The defends the value of blame by arguing that cultivating a disposition to blame is an essential mode of being "for the good".

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