Hegel on death penalty as respect for the criminal

As told 4

“the only way to treat a criminal respectfully is to punish him because only by punishing him fully you treat him as a proper autonomous human being.”
1:58:18 The Reflection of Life in Hegel2009 · 2:11:29

“death penalty for Hegel is the subject's right. The criminal's right. Through it the subject is recognized as a free autonomous person when he or she is sentenced to death.”
6:33 Why We Should Not Go To The End of the Revolutionary Road2022-08-31 · 1:28:28

“Hegel's defense of death penalty? No, that it's the ultimate recognition of of of the criminal as a free human being. He said the only way to treat a criminal respectfully is to punish him because only by punishing him fully you treat him as a proper autonomous human being.”
1:58:10 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 2 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:36:06

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

negation of negation ×2 recognition (Anerkennung) ×1 subjective destitution ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Yevgeny Yevtushenko2 Anna Netrebko2 Lynn Margulis2 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon2 Rider Haggard1 Christina1 Carla Bruni1 Carl von Ossietzky1

alongside works

Sex, Lies, and Videotape2 Pentimento2 L'Amour et l'Occident (Love in the West)2 The Illusion of the Others (Die Illusion der Anderen)2 Falling in Love2 She2 The Silence2 Black Skin, White Masks2

Told together with

40% Cindy Crawford beats Claudia Schiffer because of her mole 2 shared talks 40% Anna Netrebko's Name 2 shared talks 29% Borges Chinese classification of dogs 2 shared talks 20% The Wolfman Case 2 shared talks 18% Jaws shark as ideological condensation 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

1:58:18 The Reflection of Life in Hegel2009 · 2:11:29

Hegel argues that punishing a criminal, up to capital punishment, is the highest recognition of their freedom and autonomy; not punishing them is the true humiliation, treating them as less than a full moral agent., illustrating negation of negation,crime and law,freedom and recognition

6:33 Why We Should Not Go To The End of the Revolutionary Road2022-08-31 · 1:28:28

Through legal execution the guilty subject's debt is paid and the wound healed; refusing to hold them fully accountable by citing social circumstances denies their status as a free agent., illustrating mutual recognition,subjective destitution,negation of negation as failure of negation

1:58:10 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 2 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:36:06

Hegel defends the death penalty not as retribution, but as the ultimate recognition of the criminal as a free, autonomous human being, treating them with respect by holding them fully accountable., illustrating hegel-dialectics,subjectivity

5:57 Against Recognition: A Critique of the Liberal Reading of Hegel2015-12-02 · 2:04:35

Hegel's paradoxical argument that capital punishment honors the criminal by treating him as a fully responsible autonomous agent; prohibiting it is condescending because it treats the murderer as a victim of circumstances., illustrating recognition (Anerkennung),liberal Hegel / recognition,gentrification of Hegel