Thomas Aquinas and the philosophy of punishment
Koritansky, Peter Karl
creator
text
bibliography
dcu
Washington, D.C
Catholic University of America Press
c2012
2012
monographic
eng
x, 209 p. 22 cm.
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 political society -- Capital punishment, evangelium vitae, and the Thomistic theory of punishment -- Conclusion: Thomas Aquinas and modern theories of punishment.
Peter Karl Koritansky.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-209) and index.
Aquinas, Saint
Thomas
1225?-1274
Punishment
Religious aspects
Christianity
Retribution
Religious aspects
Christianity
B765.T54 K63 2012
364.601 K845t
9780813218830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
2011033836
DLC
110215
20180302150901.0
306961