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ISBN/UID: 9780691165332
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 14 May 2019
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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, m...
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208 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780691165332
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 14 May 2019
Description
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, m...