2 Ergebnisse.

Volume 2 continues the dialogue about crime, considering more fully the relationship to psychopathy, deviance and mental health, which concept, as well as that of sin, is well explored. In this context, Wootton discusses ethics, honesty, sex and the law, murder and capital punishment, and her own invaluable and fascinating study of diminished responsibility in 73 cases of murder is reproduced.

Volume 3 gives a fascinating portrait of Barbara Wootton's beliefs and hopes, discussion ranging over the creation of the universe, personal immortality, the existence of a god, foundations of morality, the taking of life, and social, racial and sexual equality. She discourses on obligations between citizen and state, war and her wartime views on possible European federation, science and democracy, divorce and marriage laws, particular inequal...