The Nature of Desert Claims
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The Nature of Desert Claims

Rethinking What it Means to Get One's Due

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The Nature of Desert Claims

Rethinking What it Means to Get One's Due

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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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108960717
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Ethics & Moral Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I Reviewing the Received Wisdom on Desert
  10. Part II An Alternative Model of Desert
  11. References
  12. Index