Desert and Justice

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.

Product details

• Authors: Serena Olsaretti
• Assisted by: Serena Olsaretti (Editor), Olsaretti Serena (Editor)
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.03.2007
• EAN: 9780199204250
• ISBN: 978-0-19-920425-0
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Mind Association Occasional (P
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law