Keeping Balance

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.

Auteur
Diana Abad studied philosophy and law at the University of Bielefeld (M.A. 1999); doctorate in philosophy. She was substituting lecturer at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, visiting lecturer at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, lecturer at the University of Bielefeld (2006 / 07) and since 2007 she is lecture at the University of Dortmund. Here research interests are moral philosophy: virtue ethics, the good life, particularism; philosophy of the emotions; philosophy of sports; British Rationalism.