Desert and Justice

ISBN13: 9780199204250ISBN10: 019920425X Paperback, 282 pages

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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.

Features

  • Fundamental questions about how society should operate
  • The only volume of all-new essays on this prominent topic
  • Encapsulates and extends current debate on all the relevant issues
  • A truly first class, international team of of contributors

Product Details

282 pages; ISBN13: 978-0-19-920425-0ISBN10: 0-19-920425-X

About the Author(s)

Edited by Serena Olsaretti, Cambridge University

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