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all the true spirit of the law. This leads him to justify torture. He did not deem torture to imply any philosophical contradiction. On the contrary. Though he considers the philosophical positions of those whom he calls ‘humanitarians’, Farrugia refutes them on the grounds of the retributive arguments which he expounds throughout the rest of his book.
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Basically, the work is a short treatise on the philosophy of punishment. Structurally, the fifth part is the main section of the book, around which all the other parts are organised. In this part
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