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

Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press (2007)
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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.

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BJ1401.K73 2007

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9780674032378   9780674027084   0674032373   0674024419

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10.4159/9780674027084
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