In his lectures on the death penalty Jacques Derrida argues the surprising thesis that ‘no philosophical system as such has ever been able rationally to oppose the death penalty’. And he also entertains a second thesis that juridical execution undergirds the legal system. In his support for abolitionism, Derrida participates in ‘philosophy’ without quite belonging there. In fact, he maintains that juridical execution comes into sharper focus only when we pass from philosophy to theology. There is space for further passage in this direction, perhaps, in exploring the Eucharist as ‘unbloody sacrifice’. It is regrettable that the second thesis is insufficiently established.

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德里达论法律与血

在他关于死刑的演讲中，雅克德里达提出了一个令人惊讶的论点，即“没有任何哲学体系能够理性地反对死刑”。他还接受了第二个论点，即司法执行是法律体系的基础。在他对废奴主义的支持中，德里达参与了“哲学”，但并不完全属于那里。事实上，他坚持认为，只有当我们从哲学转向神学时，司法执行才会成为焦点。在这个方向上还有进一步通过的空间，也许是在探索圣体圣事作为“不血腥的牺牲”。遗憾的是第二篇论文的成立不够充分。