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Kraut, Richard. What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being.(Brief article)(Book review)
Kraut, Richard. What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being. Harvard Univ. Apr. 2007. c.312p. index. ISBN 0-674-02441-9 [ISBN 978-0-674-02441-0]. $35. PHIL
Continuing in the tradition of Socrates and Plato, Kraut (philosophy, Northwestern Univ.) seeks to examine the nature of "goodness" and proposes that "we should ask what we commit ourselves to when we call something good for someone." In answer to what it is about certain actions or events that makes them good for us, he concludes that something is good when it allows an organism to flourish. (Although the majority of Kraut's analysis focuses on what is good for humans, he …
