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.
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What is good and why : the ethics of well-being by Richard Kraut. ISBN 9780674024410. Published by Harvard University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
