...Known as vir trilinguis (trilingual Hebrew, Greek and Latin), Jerome is the first sole translator in this study. A convert to Christianity, much of Jerome's early adulthood seems overshadowed by a libido not conquered by the solitary desert life. Seeking diversion, Jerome, already...

... is to be explained as a failure to treat in accordance with desert, and thus that there is no inconsistency with justice as fittingness. desert entitlement Rawls John utilitarianism authority intent statements of fairness principle of status requirement for desert Kleinigian account of treatment according...

... desert and the notions of reward and punishment. Thus, it may appear that to accept justice as fittingness is to accept that reward and punishment have a particularly significant role to play in a just society, and even that to accept justice as fittingness is to be commuted to retributivism. While...

...This chapter explores the relationship between desert and responsibility. It rejects the view that to be deserving one must be responsible for that which makes him/her deserving, and thus defends the claim that justice is to be understood as treating in accordance with desert. The chapter also...

... that Treasure Island, long accepted as an exemplary text in this regard, actually functions as an anti-adventure story, inciting child readers to see through the seductive propaganda of typical desert island romances. Like Ewing, Robert Louis Stevenson portrays the project of draining foreign lands...

... that such enhancements are only justified if they are based on elevated recidivism risk and respect the normal upper limits of current-offense desert. Moreover, such enhancements should be replaced by validated risk assessment instruments that include normatively acceptable factors in addition to prior convictions...

... not permit leveling down for the sake of feasible equality. Principles of desert and productivity are shown to be legitimate at most within a framework of equality and severely limited by it. equal advancement of interests dignity of persons intrinsic goods Kant Immanuel Pettit Philip Kamm Francis...

...Chapter 6 argues that marginal landscapes witnessed unprecedented agricultural development during late antiquity. In part because choice lands were scarce due to increasing competition among the growing number of farmers and the success of large estates, the desert margins of Oriens were...

... vigilantism confidence community input or views and criminalisation judges juries prosecutors trials victims imprisonment sentences arbitrary or capricious authority surveys anchor ing points or effects blameworthiness death penalty deserts disproportionality intuitions offenders adult...

...This chapter introduces the fault forfeits first view, which states that it is better to aid an innocent person than to help a guilty person. It differentiates moderates from retributivists, where it suggests that the moderates’ conception of desert is comparative, while...

...This chapter introduces other possible shapes that individual desert lines can assume. The first is plateaus, which is formed when an individual desert line reached the level of well-being that is absolutely deserved. Here it considers the possibility of whether or not it is possible to refuse...

...This chapter focuses on peaks, a concept which was introduced in a previous chapter. The first section deals with the absolute desert mapping function, which records certain levels of vice or virtue and maps them on specific assignments of absolute desert. This is followed by a discussion of curved...

...This chapter suggests an alternative approach to comparative desert: the Y gap view. This approach states that comparative desert is fully satisfied when the offense against noncomparative desert is the same for all relevant individuals. It applies the Y gap view to the four examples cited...

...This chapter studies graphing comparative desert. It shows that comparative desert is fully satisfied when the offense against noncomparative desert—if there is any—is the same for all relevant individuals. It stresses the importance of the presence or absence of relative advantage to comparative...

...This chapter takes a look at some of the topics this book previously set aside before discussing desert. It first considers the role of deontology and then analyzes the book’s methodology, including the persistent and systematic use of graphs. It shows what these methods reveal about the nature...

... history agential moral ignorance quality of will Talbert M unwitting acts desert and blame inadvertence negligence character and moral responsibility reactive attitudes Scanlon T M punishment agency coercion capacity choice ignorance that traces to luck consequential or resultant degrees...

..., for example overwintering or desert or mountain crossings, also impose demands that may lead to trade-offs in route selection or timing. It is apparent, however, that there are evolved adaptations to circumvent constraints, including metabolic efficiencies and the ability to select assisting winds...

..., to protect friends and allies in the region, and to stop Iraq from producing weapons of mass destruction. It argues that oil was the primary motivation for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. It also discusses Operation Desert Storm that was launched by America in 1991 to free Kuwait from Iraq. In addition...

...This chapter explores the pioneers of Christian mysticism, the fourth-century desert fathers of Egypt. These early monks forged techniques of prayer and asceticism, of discipleship and spiritual direction, that have remained central to Christianity ever since. Intellectuals helped record...

...This chapter defends counterfactual dependency as a desert determiner, independent of causation. Lawyers have not been wrong in looking for such dependency as the touchstone for liability for omissions, preventions, double preventions, and cases of de minimus causal contribution...