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Eye for an Eye
This book is a historical and philosophical mediation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption.
William Ian Miller (Author)
9780521856805, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 19 December 2005
278 pages
23.5 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.51 kg
'This is a refreshing and thought-provoking book \u2026 a superb book \u2026 Miller resoundingly demonstrates that legal history can be exciting.' The Cambridge Law Journal
This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth - seriously. In its biblical formulation that law states the value of my eye in terms of your eye, the value of your teeth in terms of my teeth. Eyes and teeth become units of valuation. But the talion doesn't stop there. It seems to demand that eyes, teeth, and lives are also to provide the means of p]
Eye for an Eye Miller Hardback Cambridge University Press 9780521856805
Eye for an Eye
This book is a historical and philosophical mediation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption.
William Ian Miller (Author)
9780521856805, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 19 December 2005
278 pages
23.5 x 16.1 x 2.4 cm, 0.51 kg
'This is a refreshing and thought-provoking book \u2026 a superb book \u2026 Miller resoundingly demonstrates that legal history can be exciting.' The Cambridge Law Journal
This book is a historical and philosophical meditation on paying back and buying back, that is, it is about retaliation and redemption. It takes the law of the talion - eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth - seriously. In its biblical formulation that law states the value of my eye in terms of your eye, the value of your teeth in terms of my teeth. Eyes and teeth become units of valuation. But the talion doesn't stop there. It seems to demand that eyes, teeth, and lives are also to provide the means of p]
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