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Eye for an eye
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ISBN: 0521856809 9780521856805 9780511511059 9780521704670 0521704677 1107155827 0511183771 0511137702 0511312016 0511511051 128043189X 0511201893 051113553X 9780511137709 9780511183775 9780511135538 9781107155824 9780511201899 9780511312014 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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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 payment. Bodies and body parts, it seems, have a just claim to being not just money, but the first and precisest of money substances. In its highly original way, the book offers a theory of justice, not an airy theory though. It is about getting even in a toughminded, unsentimental, but respectful way. And finds that much of what we take to be justice, honor, and respect for persons requires, at its core, measuring and measuring up.


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Talio esto : recherches sur les origines de la formule "œil pour œil, dent pour dent" dans les droits du Proche-Orient ancien, et sur son devenir dans le monde gréco-romain.
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ISBN: 9783110264500 9783110264517 3110264501 Year: 2011 Volume: 426 Publisher: Berlin de Gruyter

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