Thomas Aquinas and the philosophy of punishment / Peter Karl Koritansky.
Publisher: Washington, District of Columbia : Catholic University of America Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (224 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813219448
- 0813219442
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Punishment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Retribution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Thomas, Aquinas, 1225?-1274
- Thomas (von Aquin)
- Naturrecht
- Strafe
- Utilitarismus
- Vergeltung
- Thomas, de Aquino, 1225-1274
- Naturrecht
- Strafe
- Utilitarismus
- Vergeltung
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274
- Punishment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- Retribution -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
- RELIGION / Christianity / History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
- 364.601 23
- B765.T54 .K63 2012eb
- 5,1
- CE 4717
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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