telishment
Meanings
Plural: telishments
Noun
- The act or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence.
Origin / Etymology
Coined by John Rawls in his 1955 paper “Two Concepts of Rules”. Probably a portmanteau of the Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “result; end; loosely, the greater good”) and the English (pun)ishment. Compare telish.
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