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  • Chapter 5 - Setting Another Place for Desert

  • from Part II - An Alternative Model of Desert
  • Kevin Kinghorn, Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky
  • Book:
    The Nature of Desert Claims
    Published online:
    13 May 2021
    Print publication:
    20 May 2021, pp 129-154

  • Summary

    While the traditional, 3-place model of desert cannot acccount for the examples from Chapter 4, an expanded model can do so: "The truth about A possessing Y should be acknowledged by A receiving X ." There is an impicit, fourth placeholder in this model of desert, having to do with "acknolwedging truth" about a person's actions or traits. Admittedly, any model of desert can add further placeholders as specifics are added to the desert claim. However, my model requires the four placeholders as a minimum to make a conceptually well-formed statement about desert. There is a clear sense in which my model is forward-looking, as it emphasizes the shared acknowledgment of a person's traits so as to build a shared narrative needed for future, harmonious relationships. However, the forward-looking aspects of my model are not the merely consequentialist considerations that move us beyond considerations of desert. Rather, my 4-place model captures the core concern common to the concept "desert" itself.

The Nature of Desert Claims
  • Rethinking What it Means to Get One's Due
  • Kevin Kinghorn
  • Published online:
    13 May 2021
    Print publication:
    20 May 2021
  • Our everyday conversations reveal the widespread assumption that positive and negative treatment of others can be justified on the grounds that 'they deserve it'. But what is it exactly to deserve something? In this book, Kevin Kinghorn explores how we came to have this concept and offers an explanation of why people feel so strongly that redress is needed when outcomes are undeserved. Kinghorn probes for that core concern which is common to the range of everyday desert claims people make, ultimately proposing an alternative model of desert which represents a fundamental challenge to the received wisdom on the structure of desert claims. In the end, he argues, our plea for deserved treatment ends up being linked to the universal human concern for a shared narrative, as we seek healthy relationships within a community.