Preface
I. Historical Interpretations of Desert
Introduction: Louis P. Pojman
1. Plato: Justice as Harmony in the Soul and State
2. Aristotle: Justice as Equality According to Merit
3. Thomas Hobbes: Merit as Market Value
4. Adam Smith: Merit and Demerit
5. Immanuel Kant: Moral Worth as Alone Deserving Happiness
6. John Stuart Mill: Justice, Desert and Utility
7. Henry Sidwick: Justice as Desert
8. W.D. Ross: What Things Are Good?
II. Contemporary Interpretations of Desert
Introduction: Owen McLeod
A. The Concept of Desert
9. Joel Feinberg, "Justice and Personal Desert"
10. John Kleining, "the Concept of Desert"
11. David Miller, "Deserts"
12. Julian Lamont, "The Concept of Desert in Distributive Justice"
B. Desert and Responsibility
13. Galen Strawson, "The Impossibility of Moral Responsibility"
14. Harry Frankfurt, "Freedom of the Will and the Concept of Person"
15. David Miller, "Deserts"
16. Fred Feldman, "Desert" Reconsideration of Some Received Wisdom"
C. The Rawlsian Debate
17. Herbert Spiegelberg, "The Argument for Equality from Compensatory Desert"
18. John Rawls, "A Theory of Justice"
19. Robert Nozick, "Anarchy, State and Utopia
20. Michael Sandel, "A Critique of Rawls' Theory of the Self and Desert"
21. Owen McLeod, "Desert and Institutions"
22. Samuel Scheffler, "Responsibility, Reactive Attitudesand Liberalism in Philosophy and Politics"
D. The Role of Significance of Desert
23. Michael Slote, "Desert, Consent and Justice"
24. Norman Daniels, "Merit and Meritocracy"
25. Robert Goodin, "Negating Positive Desert Claims"
26. Robert Young, "Egalitarianism and the Modest Significance of Desert"
27. Fred Feldman, "Adjusting Utility for Justice"
28. Own McLeod, "Desert and Wages"
29. Louis Pojman, "Does Equality Trump Desert"
30. Shelly Kagan, "Equality and Desert"
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