Kevin Kinghorn (Kentucky Asbury Theological Seminary)

The Nature of Desert Claims

Rethinking What It Means to Get One's Due

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Produktbeschreibung

A contribution to the growing literature on desert in moral philosophy, this book both engages with contemporary literature and offers a new approach to understanding the concept and its relationship to justice. It will be an important resource for upper-level undergraduates and graduate researchers in moral and political philosophy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9781108958097
• ISBN-10: 1108958095
• Artikelnr.: 68271419

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.