On Mercy
Author:   Malcolm Bull
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
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9780691217451


Pages:   208
Publication Date:   20 April 2021
Format:   Paperback
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On Mercy


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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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Author:   Malcolm Bull
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
ISBN:  

9780691217451


ISBN 10:   0691217459
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   20 April 2021
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2019


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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.

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