What Is Good and Why
The Ethics of Well-Being
Published on 1. July 2009
302 pages
978-0-674-02708-4 (ISBN)
Description
What is good, how do we know, and how important is it? Kraut reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish. Extending his argument to include plants and animals, Kraut applies a general principle to the entire living world: what is good for complex organisms consists in the exercise of their natural powers.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, MA; London
United States
Target group
Adult education
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-0-674-02708-4 (9780674027084)
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05/2009
Harvard University Press
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Person
Richard Kraut is Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.
Content
Contents Acknowledgments ONE In Search of Good TWO Good, Conation, and Pleasure THREE Prolegomenon to Flourishing FOUR The Sovereignty of Good Works Cited Index
