George Sher - Desert (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosoph

George Sher - Desert (Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy)
Princeton University Press, 1989
214 str.
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Review
"A complex and subtle depiction of a highly irregular conceptual terrain. . . . Sher's discussion is sure to play an important part in future thinking about desert. It has many virtues, foremost among them its thoroughness and clarity and its refusal to dodge difficulties. It represents a stimulating and educative contribution to several different areas of philosophical debate, and on all these grounds deserves to be widely read."---A. C. Grayling, Times Higher Education Supplement

"George Sher's book is a comprehensive and constructive account of our pre-reflective intuitions of desert. Sher reviews the great variety of desert-claims that arise in connection with wages, prizes, honors, rewards, and penalties, as well as in miscellaneous settings, and elaborates a set of supporting justifications. The result is a clearly written, closely reasoned, often ingenious defense of desert."---Kenneth Winston, Political Theory

"Although I realize it has become a clich to praise a book by saying that it should be required reading, I believe that from now on those who would write on desert (either pro or con), or who would presuppose some notions of desert in their writings on other topics, have an obligation to study Sher's book."---Jeffrie Murphy, The Philosophical Review
From the Back Cover
'A complex and subtle depiction of a highly irregular conceptual terrain. ...Sher's discussion in sure to play an important part in future thinking about desert. It has many virtues, foremost among them its thoroughness and clarity and its refusal to dodge difficulties. It represents a stimulating and educative contribution to several different areas of philosophical debate, and on all these grounds deserves to be widely read.'

Studies the range of acts and traits for which persons are said to deserve things. These include acting wrongly, being victimized by others' wrongdoing, extending sustained effort, working productively, performing well in competition, being best qualified for positions, and possessing or exhibiting moral virtue.

Contents:
Introduction: The dimensions of the problem
Rawls's attack on desert
Freedom, action, and desert
Desert and diligence
Deserved punishment
Desert and diachronic fairness
Desert and merit
Desert and virtue
Desert and the boundaries of the self
Why the past matters
Desert, rights, and justice


Nonfiction, Philosophy, 0691023166

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