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Is mercy more important than justice? Since antiquity, mercy has been regarded as a virtue. The power of monarchs was legitimated by their acts of clemency, their mercy demonstrating their divine nature. Yet by the end of the eighteenth century, mercy had become "an injustice committed against society . . . a manifest vice." Mercy was exiled fro

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Malcolm Bull is Professor of Art and the History of Ideas at the University of Oxford and a Senior Associate Research Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford. He is the author of books on Vico and Nietzsche.
Release date Australia
May 14th, 2019
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Pages
208
Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
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N/a
ISBN-13
9780691165332
Product ID
31754832

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