Thesis
Free-will, responsibility and punishment
- Abstract:
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One of the purposes of this thesis is to try to examine the concepts of mental sickness and responsibility (and some other related concepts) and see whether or not they can be defended against some of the criticisms that have been made against them. It has, for instance, been argued that the concept mental sickness is culture relative in a bad sense. If this criticism is valid, then we cannot be justified in saying that mental sickness has impaired a person's responsibility.
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Bibliographic Details
- Publication date:
- 1968
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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602326357
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Subjects:
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- td:602326357
- Deposit date:
- 2015-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Haksar, Vinit
- Copyright date:
- 1968
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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