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Malcolm Bull

On Mercy

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Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had become an injustice committed against society . . . a manifest vice. Mercy was exiled from political life. How this happens? In this book, Malcolm Bull analyses and challenges the Enlightenment's rejection of mercy. A society operating on principles of rational self-interest had no place for something so arbitrary and contingent, and having been excluded from Hobbes's theory of the state and Hume's theory of justice, mercy disap… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-16533-2
  • EAN: 9780691165332
  • Produktnummer: 29223839
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Masse: H21.2 cm x B13.5 cm x D2.2 cm 338 g
  • Abbildungen: n/a
  • Gewicht: 338

Über den Autor


Malcolm Bull is Professor of Art and the History of Ideas at the University of Oxford and a Senior Associate Research Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. He is the author of books on Vico and Nietzsche.

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