Analysis reveals how mercy intersects with justice and injustice in political theory, suggesting new perspectives.
Though justice, injustice and cruelty receive significant attention in political theory, mercy is not commonly associated with politics or modern political theory. Yet there is space where a discussion of mercy may be useful. While it seems obvious that justice is opposed to injustice, and by extension justice corrects or addresses injustice; mercy can also be opposed to injustice.
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