What Is Good and Why

The Ethics of Well-Being

• Author(s): Richard Kraut,
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Pages: 302
• ISBN_10: 0674027086
  ISBN_13: 9780674027084
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy ,

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