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Author: Kevin Kinghorn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-05-20
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1108845320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a new approach to understanding the concept of desert and its relationship to justice.
Author: George Sher
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-11-10
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0691221367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe description for this book, Desert, will be forthcoming.
Author: Treavor Lord
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Shelly Kagan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-12-04
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 0190233729
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Geometry of Desert explores the hidden complexity of moral desert. Using graphs to illustrate and contrast alternative views, it carefully investigates the various ways in which the value of an outcome varies when people get (or fail to get) what they deserve.
Author: Stephen Kershnar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-18
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1000429210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no one deserves anything. If this is correct, then claims that people deserve general and specific things are false. At the heart of desert is the notion of moral credit or discredit. People deserve good things (credit) when they are good people or do desirable things. These desirable things might be right, good, or virtuous acts. People deserve bad things (discredit) when they are bad people or do undesirable things. On some theories, people deserve credit in general terms. For instance, they deserve a good life. On other theories, people deserve credit in specific terms. For instance, they deserve specific incomes, jobs, punishments, relationships, or reputations. The author’s argument against desert rests on three claims: There is no adequate theory of what desert is. Even if there were an adequate theory of what desert is, nothing grounds (justifies) desert. Even if there were an adequate theory of what desert is and something were to ground it, there is no plausible account of what people deserve. Desert Collapses will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics and political philosophy.
Author: Maureen Sie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1317362950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBasic Desert, Reactive Attitudes and Free Will addresses the issue of whether we can make sense of the widespread conviction that we are morally responsible beings. It focuses on the claim that we deserve to be blamed and punished for our immoral actions, and how this claim can be justified given the philosophical and scientific reasons to believe that we lack the sort of free will required for this sort of desert. Contributions to the book distinguish between, and explore, two clusters of questions. The first asks what it is to deserve to be harmed or benefitted. What are the bases for desert – actions, good character, bad character, the omission of good character traits? The second cluster explores the disagreement between compatabilists and incompatibilists surrounding the nature of desert. Do we deserve to be harmed, benefitted, or judged, even if we lack the ability to act differently, and if we do not, what effect does this have on our everyday actions? Taken in full, this book sheds light on the notion of desert implicated in our practice of holding each other morally responsible. This book was originally published as a special issue of Philosophical Explorations.
Author: Serena Olsaretti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 753
ISBN-13: 0199645124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistributive justice has come to the fore in political philosophy: how should we arrange our social and economic institutions so as to distribute benefits and burdens fairly? Thirty-eight leading figures from philosophy and political theory present specially written critical assessments of the key issues in this flourishing area of research.
Author: Serena Olsaretti
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0199259763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSerena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers on the nature of desert and justice, their relations with each other and with other values. Does justice require that individuals get what they deserve? What exactly is involved in giving people what they deserve? Does treating people as responsible agents require that we make room for desert in the economic sphere, as well as in the attribution of moral praise and blame and in the dispensing of punishment? How does respecting desert square with considerations of equality? Does desert, like justice, have a comparative aspect? These are questions of great practical as well as theoretical importance: this book is unique in offering a sustained examination of them from various perspectives.
Author: John RAWLS
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0674042603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThough the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Author: Stephen Kershnar
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9780739139363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesert and Virtue: A Theory of Intrinsic Value presents a comprehensive examination of desert and what makes people deserve things. Stephen Kershnar demonstrates how desert relates to virtue, good deeds, moral responsibility, and personal change and growth through the life process. He persuasively argues that desert is a function that relates well-being, intrinsic value, and a "ground," which is defined as a person's character or act. Kershnar also explores whether his theory is consistent with the limited responsibility people have for who they are. Desert and Virtue's insightful analysis will be particularly useful for those interested in philosophy, religion, and other fields that touch on value theory.
