Justice As Fittingness [Paperback]

This book offers a new approach to a fundamental question: What is justice? In building his theory, Cupit maintains that injustice should 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.

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.