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<journal-id>0011-1503</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Crítica (México, D.F.)]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Crítica (Méx., D.F.)]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0011-1503</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S0011-15032008000200003</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2008.1007</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[&#8220;Above the Sceptred Sway&#8221;: Retrieving the Quality of Mercy]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[&#8220;Por encima de esa autoridad de cetro&#8221;: recuperación de la cualidad de la clemencia]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Ransome]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[William F.]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Griffith University Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Australia</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2008</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>00</month>
<year>2008</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>40</volume>
<numero>119</numero>
<fpage>3</fpage>
<lpage>27</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0011-15032008000200003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0011-15032008000200003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0011-15032008000200003&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[SUMMARY Mercy is often thought to be a praiseworthy moral virtue. However, the quality of mercy has been thrown into doubt. Since to be merciful is to be lenient to a wrongdoer beyond the dictates of justice, it seems as if mercy cannot be a praiseworthy virtue. I argue that several recent attempts to reconcile mercy with justice fail, and that the subsequent endeavour to resurrect mercy as a praiseworthy moral virtue is doubtful. However, I also show how the praiseworthy quality of mercy can be retrieved, if we carefully reconstruct the moral case in its favour outside the law.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[RESUMEN La clemencia se suele considerar como una virtud moral loable. Sin embargo, se ha puesto en duda la cualidad de la clemencia. Puesto que ser clemente implica ser indulgente con un malhechor más allá de los dictados de la justicia, parece que la clemencia no puede ser una virtud loable. Sostengo que varios intentos recientes por reconciliar la clemencia con la justicia fracasan, y que la tentativa subsiguiente por resucitar la clemencia como virtud moral loable es dudosa. Sin embargo, también demuestro cómo se puede recuperar la calidad loable de la clemencia si reconstruimos cuidadosamente su defensa moral fuera de la ley.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[equity]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[justice]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[leniency]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[mercy]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[virtue]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[equidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[justicia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[lenidad]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[clemencia]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[virtud]]></kwd>
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