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What is good and why : the ethics of well-being
- Title
- What is good and why : the ethics of well-being / Richard Kraut.
- Author
- Kraut, Richard, 1944-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
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- Description
- xi, 286 p.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-279) and index.
- Contents
- In search of good -- A Socratic question -- Flourishing and well-being -- Mind and value -- Utilitarianism -- Rawls and the priority of the right -- Right, wrong, should -- The elimination of moral rightness -- Rules and good -- Categorical imperatives -- Conflicting interests -- Whose good? The egoist's answer -- Whose good? The utilitarian's answer - Self-denial, self-love, universal concern -- Pain, self-love, and altruism -- Agent-neutrality and agent-relativity -- Good, conation, and pleasure -- "Good" and "good for" -- "Good for" and advantage -- "Good that" and "Bad that" -- Pleasure and advantage -- Good for S that P -- The "for" of "good for" -- Plants, animals, humans -- Ross on human nature -- The perspectival reading of "good for" -- The conative approach to well-being -- Abstracting from the content of desires and plans -- The faulty mechanisms of desire formation -- Infants and adults -- The conation of an ideal self -- The appeal of the conative theory -- Conation hybridized -- Strict hedonism -- Hedonism diluted -- Prolegomenon to flourishing -- Development and flourishing: the general theory -- Development and flourishing: the human case -- More examples of what is good -- Appealing to nature -- Sensory un-flourishing -- Affective flourishing and un-flourishing -- Hobbes on tranquility and restlessness -- Flourishing and un-flourishing as a social being -- Cognitive flourishing and un-flourishing -- Sexual flourishing and un-flourishing -- Too much and too little -- Comparing lives and stages of life -- Adding goods: Rawls's principle of inclusiveness -- Art, science, and culture -- Self-sacrifice -- The vanity of fame -- The vanity of wealth -- Making others worse-off -- Virtues and flourishing -- The good of autonomy -- What is good and why -- The sovereignty of good -- The importance of what is good for us -- Good's insufficiency -- Promises -- Retribution -- Cosmic justice -- Social justice -- Pure antipaternalism -- Moral space and giving aid -- Slavery -- Torture -- Moral rightness revisited -- Lying -- Honoring the dead -- Meaningless goals and symbolic value -- Good-independent realms of value -- Good thieves and good human beings -- Final thoughts.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-3071
- ISBN
- 0674024419 (alk. paper)
- 9780674024410 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006049655
- OCLC
- 71004583
- Author
- Kraut, Richard, 1944-
- Title
- What is good and why : the ethics of well-being / Richard Kraut.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-279) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-3071