Revenge

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Robert J. Stainton

Abstract

This paper discusses, in a preliminary manner, what revenge is. (It does not address the rationality or moral standing of revenge.) In particular, it proposes four elements of revenge —an agent, a recipient, a harm intended by the former, and a harm done by the latter which provokes the revenge. Based on these four elements, it highlights both agent-internal conditions for getting revenge, and agentexternal ones. Along the way, the paper contrasts revenge with related phenomena like merely getting even, and retribution.

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Stainton, R. J. (2018). Revenge. Crítica. Revista Hispanoamericana De Filosofía, 38(112), 3–20. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2006.464

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