id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt mw22v408278 Daniel Patrick Moloney The Mirror of Justice: A Plea for Mercy in Contemporary Liberal Theory 2004 .txt text/plain 360 14 51 As usually defined, the concepts of justice and mercy seem incompatible' if justice is the strict application of the law, and mercy lenient deviation from it, then mercy is unjust and justice is merciless. Perhaps for this reason, liberal political philosophers have mostly neglected the topic of mercy, despite its traditional role in contributing to political stability. cache/mw22v408278.txt txt/mw22v408278.txt