On Mercy / / Malcolm Bull.
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 s...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DTL Humanities 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) :; n/a |
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