What is good and why : the ethics of well-being / Richard Kraut.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kraut, Richard, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Good and evil.

Well-being.

Physical Description:

xi, 286 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Contents:

1 In Search of Good 1

1 A Socratic Question 1

2 Flourishing and Well-Being 3

3 Mind and Value 8

4 Utilitarianism 11

5 Rawls and the Priority of the Right 21

6 Right, Wrong, Should 24

7 The Elimination of Moral Rightness 26

8 Rules and Good 29

9 Categorical Imperatives 35

10 Conflicting Interests 37

11 Whose Good? The Egoist's Answer 39

12 Whose Good? The Utilitarian's Answer 41

13 Self-Denial, Self-Love, Universal Concern 48

14 Pain, Self-Love, and Altruism 57

15 Agent-Neutrality and Agent-Relativity 61

2 Good, Conation, and Pleasure 66

16 "Good" and "Good for" 66

17 "Good for" and Advantage 67

18 "Good that" and "Bad that" 71

19 Pleasure and Advantage 77

20 Good for S That P 79

21 The 'for" of "Good for" 81

22 Plants, Animals, Humans 88

23 Ross on Human Nature 91

24 The Perspectival Reading of "Good for" 92

25 The Conative Approach to Well-Being 94

26 Abstracting from the Content of Desires and Plans 99

27 The Faulty Mechanisms of Desire Formation 101

28 Infants and Adults 104

29 The Conation of an Ideal Self 109

30 The Appeal of the Conative Theory 113

31 Conation Hybridized 116

32 Strict Hedonism 120

33 Hedonism Diluted 126

3 Prolegomenon to Flourishing 131

34 Development and Flourishing: The General Theory 131

35 Development and Flourishing: The Human Case 135

36 More Examples of What Is Good 141

37 Appealing to Nature 145

38 Sensory Un-flourishing 148

39 Affective Flourishing and Un-flourishing 153

40 Hobbes on Tranquillity and Restlessness 158

41 Flourishing and Un-flourishing as a Social Being 161

42 Cognitive Flourishing and Un-flourishing 164

43 Sexual Flourishing and Un-flourishing 166

44 Too Much and Too Little 168

45 Comparing Lives and Stages of Life 170

46 Adding Goods: Rawls's Principle of Inclusiveness 172

47 Art, Science, and Culture 176

48 Self-Sacrifice 180

49 The Vanity of Fame 183

50 The Vanity of Wealth 187

51 Making Others Worse-Off 188

52 Virtues and Flourishing 191

53 The Good of Autonomy 196

54 What Is Good and Why 202

4 The Sovereignty of Good 205

55 The Importance of What Is Good for Us 205

56 Good's Insufficiency 211

57 Promises 215

58 Retribution 225

59 Cosmic Justice 228

60 Social Justice 231

61 Pure Antipaternalism 234

62 Moral Space and Giving Aid 238

63 Slavery 243

64 Torture 248

65 Moral Rightness Revisited 250

66 Lying 257

67 Honoring the Dead 261

68 Meaningless Goals and Symbolic Value 263

69 Good-Independent Realms of Value 266

70 Good Thieves and Good Human Beings 269.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index.

ISBN:

0674024419

9780674024410

OCLC:

71004583