The Nature of Desert Claims

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-108-84532-8
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kinghorn, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. Reviewing the Received Wisdom on Desert: 1. The work we expect desert to do; 2. How we came to have the concept 'desert'; 3. The scope of desert bases. Part II. An Alternative Model of Desert: 4. Stories that point beyond the three-place model of desert; 5. Setting another place for desert; 6. Getting exactly what one deserves; 7. The fullness of truth and the emptiness of desert; Concluding remarks.

Über Autor(innen)

Kinghorn, Kevin
Kevin Kinghorn is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at Asbury Theological Seminary. He is the author of A Framework for the Good (2016), and has written numerous articles on ethics, epistemology and the philosophy of religion.