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La abolición del tormento
El inédito Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial (c. 1795), de Pedro García del Cañuelo
José Manuel Pereiro Otero
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Published: 08/2018
Pages: 352
Subject: History, Law
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9.78147E+12
eBook ISBN: 9781469647500
DESCRIPTION
The current volume, La abolicion del tormento, analyzes, transcribes, and reproduces the complete "Discurso" while framing its proposals within the European debate regarding the abolition of torture and the prohibition of other methods of mental and physical coercion allowed by diverse tribunals. The monograph additionally considers the extent of the controversy associated with torture in Spain as it provides biographical information on Garcia del Canuelo and examines the philosophical and juridical foundations related to this atrocious practice, one which produced one of the fiercest exchanges of the Enlightenment. The aforementioned dispute reflects the political tensions of an era because a discussion on the legality of torture involves a consideration of what constitutes a human being, what is the relationship between legality and justice, and what are the limits of lawful power in relation to the natural rights and the intrinsic value of the individual. Thoroughly documented, this study should be of particular interest to those concerned with intellectual processes and practices during the modern era, not only in Spain, but throughout the Western world as a whole.