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In Justice as Fittingness Geoffrey Cupit puts forward a strikingly original theory of the nature of justice. He maintains that injustice is to be understood as a form of unfitting treatment - typically the treatment of people as less than they are. Justice is therefore closely related to unjustified contempt and disrespect, and ultimately to desert. Cupit offers a closely argued discussion of what is at issue when people take differing views on what justice requires. He demonstrates that the language of desert provides a suitable idiom in which to address substantive questions of justice, and shows why acting justly may require respect for differing entitlements, contributions, and needs. In the course of the book many important issues in moral and political philosophy are illuminated. Cupit offers a fresh account of the nature of the obligation to keep a promise, explains how requests can generate reasons for action, and suggests a radically new approach to solving the problem of political obligation. This work will offer fascinating insights to political, moral, and legal theorists alike.

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• 1 Locating Justice
• 2 Justice and Desert
• 3 Members, Wholes, and Partners
• 4 Promises and Requests
• 5 Institutional Justice
• 6 Punishment and Reward
• 7 Desert and Responsibility
• Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index

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Anyone interested in issues of justice will enjoy Cupit's lean but substantive analysis. Issues of law, politics, and morality are confronted in his claim that justice is related to the notion of fittingness. Cupit asks what distinguishes the virtue of justice from other virtues, responding that "an unjust act is an unfitting act; it is an act which fails to accord with the status of the person treated." Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the idea of justice as fittingness. Each of the remaining chapters offers practical insights into how this notion reflects more common conceptions of justice. Chapter 2 shows that to treat a person justly requires that that person be treated according to what is deserved; chapter 3 examines justice with regard to political questions about the relation of society to the individual and of the individual to society; chapter 4 analyzes of the relationship between justice and promise keeping; chapter 5 focuses on institutional justice--what happens when institutional rules are inconsistently applied. Analysis of punishment and reward within the context of justice as fittingness is offered in chapter 6, followed in chapter 7 by an analysis of desert and responsibility. A brief afterword notes issues still to be addressed. Highly recommended for general readers and upper-division undergraduates through faculty. M. A. Foley; Marywood College

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Geoffrey Cupit is at University of Waikato, New Zealand.