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People consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no one deserves anything. If this is correct, then claims that people deserve general and specific things are false.
List of contents
Introduction
Part 1: Nature of Desert
Chapter 1: Nature
Part 2: Ground of Desert
Chapter 2: Ground
Chapter 3: Circularity
Chapter 4: Responsibility
Part 3: General Desert
Chapter 5: Geometry
Chapter 6: Mathematics
Part 4: Specific Desert
Chapter 7: Animals
Chapter 8: Contribution
Part 5: Desert Literature
Chapter 9: Desert-Literature Failures
Part 6: Conclusion
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Part 7: Appendices
Appendix 1: Time
Appendix 2: Amount of Responsibility
About the author
Stephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia and an attorney. He focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy. Kershnar has written roughly one hundred articles and book chapters on such diverse topics as abortion, adult-child sex, affirmative action, capitalism, discrimination, equal opportunity, hell, most valuable player, pleasure, pornography, punishment, reparations for slavery, sexual fantasies, slavery, and torture. He is the author of nine books, including Total Collapse: The Case Against Morality and Responsibility (2018), Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense? Abortion, Hell, and Shooting Abortion-Doctors (Routledge, 2017), and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Defense (2015).
Summary
People consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no one deserves anything. If this is correct, then claims that people deserve general and specific things are false.
