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This paper argues that philosophical therapy should serve as the core of rehabilitative programs offered in correctional facilities. Rehabilitation, properly understood, should involve the development of moral responsibility. To be morally responsible offenders need to develop competencies required for making rational moral decisions.. Programs involving philosophical therapy promote such competencies. Theories of punishment assume that offenders are morally responsible for their actions when in fact many do not have the requisite skills for making rational moral decisions and therefore offenders have a right to rehabilitation and to the philosophical therapy which can assist them in becoming rational moral agents.
