The Scaffold and the Rod: Dostoevsky on the Death Penalty and Corporal Punishment

The Scaffold and the Rod: Dostoevsky on the Death Penalty and Corporal Punishment

IN THE CHAPTER “Rebellion” inThe Brothers Karamazov, Ivan famously confronts Alyosha with a roster of crimes against children that emblematize innocent and unavenged human suffering. In Ivan’s eyes, this suffering makes it impossible to accept the promise of universal reconciliation at the end of ti...

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