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Thomas Aquinas and the philosophy of punishment / Peter Karl Koritansky.

By: Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813219448
  • 0813219442
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Thomas Aquinas and the philosophy of punishment.DDC classification:
  • 364.601 23
LOC classification:
  • B765.T54 .K63 2012eb
Other classification:
  • 5,1
  • CE 4717
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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.

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