What is good and why the ethics of well-being

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Kraut, Richard, 1944- (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; London : Harvard University Press 2007
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.