Capital Punishment and Lethal Acts in War

In reply to the readily inferable denial, in para. 304 of the papal exhortation Amoris Laetitia, that there are any exceptionless negative moral norms, this article (1) recalls and reaffirms the philosophical and doctrinal tradition’s thesis that there are such norms. It then (2) sketches what is in...

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Main Author: John Finnis
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Published: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie 2024-12-01
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uksw.edu.pl/index.php/spch/article/view/15054
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title Capital Punishment and Lethal Acts in War
title_full Capital Punishment and Lethal Acts in War
title_fullStr Capital Punishment and Lethal Acts in War
title_full_unstemmed Capital Punishment and Lethal Acts in War
title_short Capital Punishment and Lethal Acts in War
title_sort capital punishment and lethal acts in war
topic exceptionless negative norms
objects of moral acts
war
capital punishment
killing humans
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