telishment

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act or institution of punishing the innocent for the sake of providing deterrence. uncountable,usually
    — Try to imagine, then, an institution (which we may call “telishment”) which is such that the officials set up by it have authority to arrange a trial for the condemnation of an innocent man whenever they are of the opinion that doing so would be in the best interests of society.

词形变化

telishments plural

词源

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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