Serena Olsaretti (ed.)

Desert and Justice

Herausgeber: Olsaretti, Serena

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Mind Association Occasional Series
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780199259762
• ISBN-10: 0199259763
• Artikelnr.: 20966881

Autorenporträt

Olsaretti, Serena (Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge)

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: debating desert and justice
* 1: David Miller: Comparative and non-comparative desert
* 2: Thomas Hurka: Desert: individualistic and holistic
* 3: Samuel Scheffler: Distributive justice and economic desert
* 4: Shelley Kagan: Comparative desert
* 5: Owen McLeod: On the comparative element of justice
* 6: Fred Feldman: Return to Twin Peaks: on the intrinsic moral
significance of equality
* 7: Peter Vallentyne: Brute luck equality and desert
* 8: Serena Olsaretti: Distributive justice and compensatory desert
* 9: George Sher: Effort and imagination
* 10: Jonathan Wolff: The dilemma of desert
* 11: Richard Arneson: The Smart theory of moral responsibility and
desert
* Bibliography
* Index