Search results for "Enlightenment's justice"

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La peine de mort dans l'Encyclopédie et ses Suppléments

2012

This is a study of Montesquieu's and Beccaria's views on the right to apply death punishment as stated in the great Encyclopedia and in the Supplements. Without providing any unique answer to the question whether society may claim the right of life and death, the encyclopaedists reconsidered and diffused the reformism of the major authors of the eighteenth-century legal culture, thus promoting a societal justice before the Revolution.

[SHS.PHIL] Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy[ SHS.PHIL ] Humanities and Social Sciences/PhilosophyBeccariaPeine de mortEncyclopédieEnlightenment's justiceJustice des LumièresDeath penalty[SHS.PHIL]Humanities and Social Sciences/PhilosophyEncyclopediaGeneral Medicine16. Peace & justiceMontesquieu
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Illuminismo e giustizia penale. Il caso della ghigliottina

2011

International audience; A mechanical daughter of the enlightenment, the guillotine remains a frightening symbol of its dialectic. Being one of the most troubling inventions of utilitarian rationalism in modern europe, it meets the expectations of equality, secularism, and humanity of the legal culture of Philosophes. Focusing on the texts and contexts of the institution of this lethal machine in the administration of justice, this article examines the anthropological sense and the political dimension of the recourse to the machine. Is the mechanization of capital punishment a step forward in the humanization of social relations or the entry in the era of technical inhumanity? In this ambigu…

[SHS.PHIL] Humanities and Social Sciences/Philosophy[ SHS.PHIL ] Humanities and Social Sciences/PhilosophyGuillotinePeine de mortDroits de l'hommeJustice des LumièresXVIIIe siècle[SHS.PHIL]Humanities and Social Sciences/PhilosophyGuillotine ˗ Death Penalty ˗ Enlightenment's Justice ˗ Human Rights ˗ 18th Century
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