DESERT AND JUSTICE by Serena Olsaretti (Editor) ( 9780199259762 )

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DESERT AND JUSTICE

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ISBN 10:

0199259763

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9780199259762

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

24 July, 2003

Series:

Mind Association Occasional Series

Pages:

284

Description:

Does justice require that individuals get what they deserve? Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by leading moral and political philosophers examining the relation between desert and justice; they also illuminate the nature of distributive justice, and the relationship between desert and other values, such as equality and responsibility.

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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.

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numerous figures and 1 table

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Clarendon Press

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