What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being

by Richard Kraut

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 what is good for complex organisms consists in the exercise of their natural powers.

Genres: Philosophy

304 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 30, 2007

Reviews

[arwen]

Putting this in just bc i read this for my philosophy class and was confused 90% of the time and 100% bored from his long ass arguments.

[Kevin Tracy]

I never did make it all the way through this book. It seems a solid academic effort, but it didn't hold my interest.