1st Edition

Desert Collapses Why No One Deserves Anything

By Stephen Kershnar Copyright 2022
258 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

258 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

People consider desert part of our moral world. It structures how we think about important areas such as love, punishment, and work. This book argues that no one deserves anything. If this is correct, then claims that people deserve general and specific things are false. At the heart of desert is the notion of moral credit or discredit. People deserve good things (credit) when they are good... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Nature of Desert

Chapter 1: Nature

Part 2: Ground of Desert

Chapter 2: Ground

Chapter 3: Circularity

Chapter 4: Responsibility

Part 3: General Desert

Chapter 5: Geometry

Chapter 6: Mathematics

Part 4: Specific Desert

Chapter 7: Animals

Chapter 8: Contribution

Part 5: Desert Literature

Chapter 9: Desert-Literature Failures

Part 6: Conclusion

Chapter 10: Conclusion

Part 7: Appendices

Appendix 1: Time

Appendix 2: Amount of Responsibility

Biography

Stephen Kershnar is a distinguished teaching professor in the philosophy department at the State University of New York at Fredonia and an attorney. He focuses on applied ethics and political philosophy. Kershnar has written roughly one hundred articles and book chapters on such diverse topics as abortion, adult-child sex, affirmative action, capitalism, discrimination, equal opportunity, hell, most valuable player, pleasure, pornography, punishment, reparations for slavery, sexual fantasies, slavery, and torture. He is the author of nine books, including Total Collapse: The Case Against Morality and Responsibility (2018), Does the Pro-Life Worldview Make Sense? Abortion, Hell, and Shooting Abortion-Doctors (Routledge, 2017), and Adult-Child Sex: A Philosophical Defense (2015).