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Subjecting Ourselves to Capital Punishment
In Kant and Applied Ethics: The Uses and Limits of Kant's Practical Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 117–138 (2011)
Abstract
This chapter contains sections titled: The Difference between Morality and Legality Retribution and the Death Penalty Consenting to Capital Punishment Determining the “Inner Wickedness” of the Accused The Fallibility of Justice Capital Punishment Cannot Be Categorically Demanded of Us A Moral Assessment of the Supposed Duty to Kill Do These Objections Rule Out All Punishments? Whose Dignity Is at Stake?
Kantian arguments against Kant's conclusions subjecting ourselves to capital punishment retribution, not warranting capital punishment, in practice morality and legality, retribution justified retribution and the death penalty, agent's action severity of a crime, depending on crime committed Kant's transcendental idealism the law of retribution, not constraining one Qua law, moral law binding rational beings Kant and capital punishment, fallibility of legal judgments
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