Keeping Balance : : On Desert and Propriety /

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

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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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Abad, Diana,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2007
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Practical Philosophy , 10
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Physical Description:1 online resource (202 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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