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What is good and why : the ethics of well-being /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-279) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674027084 0674027086 |