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What Is Good and Why : The Ethics of Well-Being / Richard Kraut.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674032378
  • 9780674027084
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 171/.3 22
LOC classification:
  • BJ1401 .K73 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. In Search of Good -- TWO. Good, Conation, and Pleasure -- THREE. Prolegomenon to Flourishing -- FOUR. The Sovereignty of Good -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674027084

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- ONE. In Search of Good -- TWO. Good, Conation, and Pleasure -- THREE. Prolegomenon to Flourishing -- FOUR. The Sovereignty of Good -- Works Cited -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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