Philosophical bases of teaching about the nature of punishment

Authors

  • Andrei V. Shidlovsky Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

Keywords:

punishment, the social and legal nature of punishment, the philosophy of idealism and materialism, criminal law, indeterminism, mechanistic determinism, determinism, the law of punishment

Abstract

The author investigates the philosophical foundations of the doctrine of the essence of punishment as a social and legal phenomenon, and considers approaches to the nature of punishment in various worldview paradigms that determine the need for this phenomenon to exist in society. The author reveals the main philosophical concepts of punishment in the classical, sociological and educational-humanistic criminal-legal directions. The author justifies the right of punishment from the positions of indeterminism, mechanistic determinism and determinism. The author notes the influence of new methodologies and worldview approaches on the development of the modern doctrine of punishment and penitentiary law. It is concluded that the essence of social justice is determined by the system of values accepted by a particular society, which forms the central core in the understanding of any philosophical perspective.

Author Biography

  • Andrei V. Shidlovsky, Belarusian State University, 4 Niezaliežnasci Avenue, Minsk 220030, Belarus

    PhD (law), docent; deputy of dean for educational work and associate professor at the department of criminal law, faculty of law

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Published

2020-05-16

Issue

No. 1 (2020): Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law

Section

Сriminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics

How to Cite

[1]
Shidlovsky, A.V. 2020. Philosophical bases of teaching about the nature of punishment. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Law. 1 (May 2020), 87–94.