What Is Good and Why : : The Ethics of Well-Being / / Richard Kraut.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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| Other title: | 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 |
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| 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. |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780674027084 9783110442205 9783110459517 9783110662566 |
| DOI: | 10.4159/9780674027084 |
| Access: | restricted access |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Richard Kraut. |