TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kraut,Richard
TI  - What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being 
SN  - 9780674032378
AV  - BJ1401 .K73 2007eb
U1  - 171/.3 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Good and evil
KW  - Well-being
KW  - Psychische Gesundheit
KW  - gnd
KW  - Wohlbefinden
KW  - Ethik
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674027084
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