| Desert and Justice Contributor(s): Olsaretti, Serena (Editor) |
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ISBN: 019920425X ISBN-13: 9780199204250 Publisher: Clarendon Press OUR PRICE: $65.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: Serena 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 172.2 |
| Series: Mind Association Occasional (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.31" W x 9.14" (0.97 lbs) 282 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Serena 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. |
