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Record Nr.

UNINA9910961117803321

Titolo

Desert and justice / / edited by Serena Olsaretti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon Press, , 2023

ISBN

1-383-04017-6

1-281-34629-2

0-19-153187-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 269 p. ) : ill

Collana

Mind Association occasional series

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

172.2

Soggetti

Merit (Ethics)

Justice (Philosophy)

Distributive justice - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume springs from a conference on "Desert and Justice" which took place at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in July 2001." - Acknowledgements.

Previously issued in print: 2003.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Debating Desert and Justice -- 1. Comparative and Noncomparative Desert -- 2. Desert: Individualistic and Holistic -- 3. Distributive Justice and Economic Desert -- 4. Comparative Desert -- 5. On the Comparative Element of Justice -- 6. Return to Twin Peaks: On the Intrinsic Moral Significance of Equality -- 7. Brute Luck Equality and Desert -- 8. Distributive Justice and Compensatory Desert -- 9. Effort and Imagination -- 10. The Dilemma of Desert -- 11. The Smart Theory of Moral Responsibility and Desert -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

Sommario/riassunto

Serena Olsaretti brings together new essays by moral and political philosophers on the nature of desert and justice, their relations with each other and with other values.