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The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays--on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill--are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. --Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker's presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought. --Clifford Orwin, author of The Humanity of Thucydides The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu s Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker s presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought.--Clifford Orwin, author of, The Humanity of Thucydides The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays--on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill--are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. --Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker's presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought.--Clifford Orwin, author of , The Humanity of Thucydides

The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu s Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker s presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought.--Clifford Orwin, author of, The Humanity of Thucydides

The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays--on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill--are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. --Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker's presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought. --Clifford Orwin, author of The Humanity of Thucydides

<p> The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays--on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill--are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. --Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws <p>This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker's presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought.--Clifford Orwin, author of , The Humanity of Thucydides

The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays--on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill--are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. --Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker's presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought. --Clifford Orwin, author of The Humanity of Thucydides The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu s Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker s presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought.--Clifford Orwin, author of, The Humanity of Thucydides The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays--on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill--are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. --Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws This collection of essays on philosophic rationales for punishment is outstanding for its quality, variety, and scope. The authors show how consideration of a thinker's presentation of punishment can throw important new light on his thought as a whole. In their skilled hands punishment emerges as not a marginal but a central issue in the history of political thought.--Clifford Orwin, author of , The Humanity of Thucydides

<p> The collection is enriched by essays that take us back to those seminal and profound thinkers who laid the foundation for both the contemporary utilitarian and the contemporary retributivist theoretical frameworks. In these essays--on Hobbes, Kant, Beccaria, Bentham, and Mill--are revealed new depths underlying, and largely forgotten by, the contemporary scholarship. --Thomas Pangle, author of The Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws

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