| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 269 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Mind Association occasional series
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Mind Association occasional series.
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| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: 2003. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: debating desert and justice / Serena Olsaretti -- Comparative and noncomparative desert / David Miller -- Desert: individualistic and holistic / Thomas Hurka -- Distributive justice and economic desert / Samuel Scheffler -- Comparative desert / Shelly Kagan -- On the comparative element of justice / Owen McLeod -- Return to Twin Peaks: on the intrinsic moral significance of equality / Fred Feldman -- Brute luck equality and desert / Peter Vallentyne -- Distributive justice and compensatory desert / Serena Olsaretti -- Effort and imagination / George Sher -- Dilemma of desert / Jonathan Wolff -- Smart theory of moral responsibility and desert / Richard J. Arneson. |
| Summary |
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. - ;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 exa. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Merit (Ethics)
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Merit (Ethics) |
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Justice (Philosophy)
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Justice (Philosophy) |
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Distributive justice -- Philosophy.
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Distributive justice. |
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Philosophy. |
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Sociological jurisprudence.
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Sociological jurisprudence. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Olsaretti, Serena.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Desert and justice. Oxford [England] : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 9780199204250 019920425X (OCoLC)76935616 |
| ISBN |
9780191531873 (electronic book) |
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0191531871 (electronic book) |
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1281346292 |
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9781281346292 |
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9780199204250 |
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019920425X (Perfect) |
| Standard No. |
9780199204250 |
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