Legal TheoryPolitical TheoryEthicsPunishmentDeath PenaltySuicideCapital PunishmentLawRetributivismIn the Metaphysics of Morals Kant clearly, and indeed ardently, upholds the state's right to impose the death penalty in accordance with the law of retribution (ius talionis). The "principle of equality" ...
- indeed, which few modern thinkers of any persuasion - would be likely to endorse: about capital punishment, for example, and about suicide, and even about lying. These rigoristic views he does his best (unsuccessfully in the view of most expositors) to justify by appeal to his theory. ...
Kant's theory of the Antinomies draws on the Greek Skeptics, whose founder, Pyrrhō of Elis, was with the army of Alexander the Great in India. Pyrrho returned with a principle echoing the Fourfold Negation of Buddhist philosophy. While Kant wants to resolve some of the Antinomies with ...
Thomas Paine's social-contract theory, which asserts the protection of individual rights as the sole end of civil society and the consent of the majority of individuals as the sole source of government's authority, may seem to be better ... Canavan,Francis - 《Review of Politics》 被引量:...
(what Fries calledWissen, "knowledge"). On the other hand, Fries was put off by the bloodless rationalism and moralism of Kant's theory. Kant had provided a place forfeelingin his system, in the Third Critique, theCritique of Judgment(1790); but his view was that the feelings of the ...
capital punishmentpunishment, failing in some casesKant's theory of punishmentpunitive justicelex talionis, not working for certain crimesobjective demand of ideal law and subjective feelings of peopledoi:10.1002/9781444308488.ch8Nelson PotterPhilosophy Department, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, USA...
CAPITAL punishmentPERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge)This article explains Kant's position on the comprehensive right to abortion. The author examines to what extent abortion is punishable according to Kant's practical philosophy, even if it represents an unjust violation of the right to life. The ...