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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2009
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| In: |
Numen
Year: 2009, Volume: 56, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 141-160 |
| Further subjects: | B
Nekyia
SUMERIAN HELL
PLATO'S MYTHS
SISYPHOS
PROBLEM OF PUNISHMENT
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| Online Access: |
Volltext (Publisher) |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1568-5276 |
| Contains: | In: Numen
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/156852709X404955 |
