The Nature of Desert Claims : Rethinking What it Means to Get One's Due
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1108845320
ISBN-13
9781108845328
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
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Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 20th, 2021
Print length
260 Pages
Weight
496 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 23.60 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
PhilosophyEthics & moral philosophy
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A contribution to the growing literature on desert in moral philosophy, this book both engages with contemporary literature and offers a new approach to understanding the concept and its relationship to justice. It will be an important resource for upper-level undergraduates and graduate researchers in moral and political philosophy.
Our everyday conversations reveal the widespread assumption that positive and negative treatment of others can be justified on the grounds that ''they deserve it''. But what is it exactly to deserve something? In this book, Kevin Kinghorn explores how we came to have this concept and offers an explanation of why people feel so strongly that redress is needed when outcomes are undeserved. Kinghorn probes for that core concern which is common to the range of everyday desert claims people make, ultimately proposing an alternative model of desert which represents a fundamental challenge to the received wisdom on the structure of desert claims. In the end, he argues, our plea for deserved treatment ends up being linked to the universal human concern for a shared narrative, as we seek healthy relationships within a community.
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