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from questions of moral desert and questions of virtue?
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In many ways,
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this is an issue that separates modern political philosophy
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from ancient political thought.
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What's at stake in the question
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of whether we can put desert, moral desert aside?
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It seemed when we were reading Rawls,
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that the incentive, the reason he had,
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for detaching distributive justice from moral desert
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was an egalitarian one.
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That if we set desert to one side,
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there's greater scope