Suchergebnisse

Introduction: modern philosophies of punishment and the return to Aquinas -- The problem with the utilitarian theory of punishment -- The problem with modern retributivism -- Foundations of the Thomistic theory of punishment -- The moral basis of punishment: Aquinas's retributivism -- Beyond retribution: punishing criminals in civil society -- Capital punishment, evangelium vitae, and the Thomistic theory of punishment -- Conclusion: Thomas Aquinas and modern theories of punishment

The problem of punishment and the return to the history of political thought / Peter Karl Koritansky -- The limits of reform : punishment and reason in Plato's second-best city / V. Bradley Lewis -- Stoicism and punishment : social practices and human attitudes / Michael J. White -- Augustine on punishment and the mystery of human freedom / John von Heyking -- Christianity, punishment, and natural law : Thomas Aquinas' premodern retributivism / Peter Karl Koritansky -- Thomas Hobbes, punishment, and the limits of the social contract / John C. Koritansky -- Kant on the role of the retributive outlook in moral and political life / Arthur Shuster -- The principles of utilitarian penal law in Beccaria, Bentham, and J.S. Mill / James E. Crimmins -- Nietzsche's new naturalized conception of justice and punishment / Jeffrey Metzger -- Punishing some, disciplining all : Foucault and the techniques of political violence / Jeffrey Polet