{"id":4596,"date":"2019-03-18T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2019-03-18T14:21:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T18:21:57","slug":"buddhism-and-capital-punishment-a-revisitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2019\/03\/18\/buddhism-and-capital-punishment-a-revisitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddhism and Capital Punishment: A Revisitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 26, 2019<\/h6>\n<h3>Buddhism and Capital Punishment: A Revisitation<\/h3>\n<p>Martin Kovan<br \/>\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>The first Buddhist precept prohibits the intentional, even sanctioned, taking of life. However, capital punishment remains legal, and even increasingly applied, in some culturally Buddhist polities and beyond them. The classical Buddhist norm of unconditional compassion as a counterforce to such punishment thus appears insufficient to oppose it. This paper engages classical Buddhist and Western argument for and against capital punishment, locating a Buddhist refutation of deterrent and Kantian retributivist grounds for it not only in N\u0101g\u0101rjunian appeals to compassion, but also the metaphysical and moral constitution of the agent of lethal crime, and thereby the object of its moral consequences. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2019\/03\/Kovan_12_18_D2_final.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 26, 2019 Buddhism and Capital Punishment: A Revisitation Martin Kovan University of Melbourne The first Buddhist precept prohibits the intentional, even sanctioned, taking of life. However, capital punishment remains legal, and even increasingly applied, in some culturally Buddhist polities and beyond them. The classical Buddhist norm of unconditional compassion as a counterforce &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2019\/03\/18\/buddhism-and-capital-punishment-a-revisitation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Buddhism and Capital Punishment: A Revisitation<\/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":[125247],"tags":[2647,125204,76365,2776,1939,2663,2594,2646,2410],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-26-2019","tag-ahimsa","tag-capital-punishment","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice","tag-death","tag-indian-buddhism","tag-mahayana","tag-non-violence","tag-virtue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1c8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","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=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}