Pleading for Hell: Postulates, Fantasies, and the Senselessness of Punishment
If the ideal of justice includes effective punishment of offenders, an extension into afterlife must be postulated. This still involves all the questionable aspects and paradoxes of punishment that make rational and enlightened argumentation difficult.
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
2009
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Numen
Jahr: 2009, Band: 56, Heft: 2/3, Seiten: 141-160 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Nekyia
SUMERIAN HELL
PLATO'S MYTHS
SISYPHOS
PROBLEM OF PUNISHMENT
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| Zusammenfassung: | If the ideal of justice includes effective punishment of offenders, an extension into afterlife must be postulated. This still involves all the questionable aspects and paradoxes of punishment that make rational and enlightened argumentation difficult. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Enthält: | In: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/156852709X404955 |