Just Pain: Aquinas on the Necessity of Retribution and the Nature of Obligation

Although it is common in the Catholic moral tradition to hear punishment spoken of as "just" and demanded by reason, it is remarkably difficult to say why reason demands that malefactors suffer or to articulate what is rendered to whom in punishment. The present essay seeks to fill this la...

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Main Author: Diem, William Matthew (Author)
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Published: Philosophy Documentation Center 2022
In: American catholic philosophical quarterly
Year: 2022, Volume: 96, Issue: 1, Pages: 47-79
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