
Desert and Justice by Serena Olsaretti
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.
Olsaretti, Serena: - Serena Olsaretti is Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge and Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She is the editor of Desert and Justice (2003) and has also published in The Journal of Political Philosophy and Utilitas.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780199204250 |
| ISBN 10 | 019920425X |
| Title | Desert and Justice |
| Author | Serena Olsaretti |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2007-03-22 |
| Number of pages | 282 |
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