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Volume 8 - June 1969

Contents

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Comptes Rendus—Book Reviews

Notes—Discussions

Obituary

  • In memoriam: R.P. Jean Racette

  • Alexis Klimov
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    01 December 1969, pp. 493-494
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Obituary

  • In Memoriam: Émile Simard

  • Emmanuel Trépanier
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    01 December 1969, pp. 494-495
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Critical Notices—Études Critiques

  • Is Hart's Rationale for Legal Excuses Workable?

  • Daniel Lyons
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    01 December 1969, pp. 496-502

  • H. L. A. Hart's new book of essays (Punishment and Responsibility, Oxford 1968) rejects any theory of the classic retributive type for justifying legal punishment. Hart denies that useless punishments can be justified even of fully guilty men; he rejects as the justifying aim of punishment the hope of crowning wickedness with the suffering it deserves; he denies that great guilt could justify a more severe punishment than utility-considerations would call for. We will be concerned here with only one of his arguments supporting this rejection: the objection that mere human judges cannot measure wickedness accurately enough to see that each degree of wickedness gets the appropriate amount of suffering. And of course modern fashions of determinist thinking have brought home to us even more vividly the absurdity of trying to measure wickedness, since determinism makes us wonder if we know how much any offender could have helped doing what he did.

  • Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge*

  • C. G. Prado
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    01 December 1969, pp. 503-507

  • This is an exciting book of considerable scope. In it Danto considers knowledge and knowledge-claims, belief, skepticism, and the relation language bears to the world. One might reflect the admitted “darkness” of the preface (APK xii) by saying that Danto is out to show how knowledge, belief, perception, and language require that there be a gap between us and the world (the object of these), and how that gap “is a traversable space” (loc. cit.). It should be noted that Danto applies many of his conclusions to traditional philosophical problems in his What Philosophy Is, a book apparently intended as an introductory text.

Comptes Rendus—Book Reviews

Book Reviews—Comptes Rendus

Comptes Rendus—Book Reviews

Book Reviews—Comptes Rendus

Comptes Rendus—Book Reviews

Book Reviews—Comptes Rendus

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