武汉大学博士学位硕士外语综合水平考试试题一、阅读理解Justice in society must include both a fair trial to the accused and the selection of an appropriate punishment for those proven guilty。 Because justice is regarded as one form. of equality， we find in its earlier expressions the idea of a punishment equal to the crime。 Recorded in the Old Testament is the expression ”an eye for an eye ， and a tooth for a tooth 。 ” That is ， the individual who has done wrong has committed an offence against society。 To make up for his offence， society must get even. This can be done only by doing an equal injury to him. This conception of retributive justice is reflected in many parts of the legal documents and procedures of modern times. It is illustrated when we demand the death penalty for a person who has committed murder. This philosophy of punishment was supported by the German idealist Hegel. He believed that society owed it to the criminal to give a punishment equal to the crime he had committed。 The criminal had by his own actions denied his true self and it is necessary to do something that will counteract this denial and restore the self that has been denied。 To the murderer nothing less than giving up his own will pay his debt。 The demand of the death penalty is a right the state owes the criminal and it should not deny him his due.Modern jurists have tried to replace retributive justice with the notion of corrective justice. The aim of the latter is not to abandon the concept of equality but to find a more adequate way to express it. It tries to preserve the idea of equal opportunity for each individual to realize the best that is in him 。 The criminal is reg...
