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Malcolm Bull

On Mercy

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Is mercy more important than justice?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 did this happen?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 an… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-18573-6
  • EAN: 9780691185736
  • Produktnummer: 29863546
  • Verlag: Canongate Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 208 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 160 KB
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