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Wild Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Gerry Wallace
Affiliation:
Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hull

Extract

Shylock's famous speech is music to the ears of modern liberals: Hath not a Jew eyes, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, heated by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you pick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die?

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1995

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