Revenge
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2006
Source
Crítica, Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofía
Volume
38
Issue
112
First Page
3
Last Page
20
Abstract
This paper discusses, in a preliminary manner, what revengeis. (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 forgetting revenge, and agent external ones. Along the way, the paper contrasts revenge with related phenomena like merely getting even, and retribution.
