{"id":4260,"date":"2017-03-03T17:19:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2017-07-20T08:25:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:25:51","slug":"capital-punishment-a-buddhist-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2017\/03\/03\/capital-punishment-a-buddhist-critique\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital Punishment: a Buddhist Critique"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 24, 2017<\/h6>\n<h3>Capital Punishment: a Buddhist Critique<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Martin Kovan<br \/>\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>Capital punishment is practiced in many nation-states, secular and religious alike. It is also historically a feature of some Buddhist polities, even though it defies the first Buddhist precept (<em>p\u0101\u1e47atip\u0101t\u0101<\/em>) prohibiting lethal harm. This essay considers a neo-Kantian theorization of capital punishment (Sorell) and examines the reasons underwriting its claims (with their roots in Bentham and Mill) with respect to the prevention of and retribution for crime. The contextualization of this argument with Buddhist-metaphysical and epistemological concerns around the normativization of value, demonstrates that such a retributivist conception of capital punishment constitutively undermines its own rational and normative discourse. With this conclusion, the paper upholds and justifies the first Buddhist precept prohibiting lethal action in the case of capital punishment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2017\/03\/Kovan-Capital-Punishment-final-July-2017.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 24, 2017 Capital Punishment: a Buddhist Critique Martin Kovan University of Melbourne Capital punishment is practiced in many nation-states, secular and religious alike. It is also historically a feature of some Buddhist polities, even though it defies the first Buddhist precept (p\u0101\u1e47atip\u0101t\u0101) prohibiting lethal harm. This essay considers a neo-Kantian theorization of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2017\/03\/03\/capital-punishment-a-buddhist-critique\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Capital Punishment: a Buddhist Critique<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99241],"tags":[125204,1939,86966,2646],"class_list":["post-4260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-24-2017","tag-capital-punishment","tag-death","tag-kant","tag-non-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-16I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}