Social Theory and Practice, September 22nd, 1997
The claim that a person gets what he deserves is widely accepted, but the nature of justice in relation to desert becomes controversial as more details emerge. Rawls is commonly understood to have rejected desert, but this consensus view is mistaken. Rawls does reject the logical priority of desert over justice, but he does not assert that there is no relationship between desert and justice. The issue is related to Rawls's notion of ideal theory. Justice requires that a person get what he or she deserves. This claim is widely accepted, although the exact nature of the relationship between jus...
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