What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being by Richard Kraut
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being by Richard Kraut
English | June 14, 2009 | ISBN: 0674032373,0674024419 | 300 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | June 14, 2009 | ISBN: 0674032373,0674024419 | 300 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish–that is, what is good for us. Observing that we can sensibly talk about what is good for plants and animals no less than what is good for people, Kraut advocates a general principle that applies to the entire world of living things: what is good for complex organisms consists in the maturation and exercise of their natural powers.