Keeping Balance : : On Desert and Propriety / / Diana Abad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Abad, Diana,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Practical Philosophy , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; Introduction --; Part 1: Desert --; I. Feinberg's analysis --; II. Rawls's ostensible challenge --; III. Propriety: a preliminary account --; Part 2: Propriety --; I. Roderick Milton Chisholm --; II. Samuel Clarke --; III. Richard Price --; IV. William Wollaston --; V. Immanuel Kant --; VI. Propriety and desert --; Part 3: Applications --; I. Saving retributivism --; II. Explaining moral residue --; Bibliography --; Index of Names --; Index of subjects
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110327779; 9783110238570; 9783110238488; 9783110636949; 9783110331226; 9783110331219
• ISSN: 2197-9243
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110327779
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Diana Abad.

What is desert? The aim of this book is to give an analysis of this notion. Starting from Feinberg's seminal paper, the argument goes on to Chisholm, 18th-century British Rationalism, and Kant, who developed the concept of propriety that is the foundation of the concept of desert and the key to understanding it. Beyond the analysis, the concept of desert is applied to two problems of moral philosophy, punishment and moral residue, that can be solved only by means of this notion. Desert is an indispensable moral concept we do well to understand clearly and to incorporate into our moral practice.