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:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What is good, how do we know, and how important is it? In this book, one of our most respected analytical philosophers reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish. Observing that we can sensibly address what is good for plants and animals no less than what is good for people, Kraut applies a general principle to the entire living world: what is good for complex organisms consists in the exercise of their natural powers.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

ONE. In Search of Good

TWO. Good, Conation, and Pleasure

THREE. Prolegomenon to Flourishing

FOUR. The Sovereignty of Good

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Originally published: 2007.

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

ISBN:

9780674027084

0674027086

OCLC:

1013962349