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Dialogues on the ethics of capital punishment / Dale Jacquette.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jacquette, Dale.
- Series:
- New dialogues in philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Capital punishment.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 139 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2009]
- Summary:
- One in the series New Dialogues in Philosophy, edited by the author himself, Dale Jacquette presents a fictional dialogue over a three-day period on the ethical complexities of capital punishment. Jacquette moves his readers from outlining basic issues in matters of life and death, to questions of justice and compassion, with a concluding dialogue on the conditional and unconditional right to life. Jacquette's characters talk plainly and thoughtfully about the death penalty, and readers are left to determine for themselves how best to think about the morality of putting people to death.
- Contents:
- Day one: matters of life and death
- Day two: justice and the morality of compassion
- Day three: conditional versus unconditional right to life
- Selected readings for further study.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138).
- ISBN:
- 9780742561434
- 0742561437
- OCLC:
- 233173169
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