- Acknowledgments
- I. In Search of Good
- 1. A Socratic Question
- 2. Flourishing and Well-Being
- 3. Mind and Value
- 4. Utilitarianism
- 5. Rawls and the Priority of the Right
- 6. Right, Wrong, Should
- 7. The Elimination of Moral Rightness
- 8. Rules and Good
- 9. Categorical Imperatives
- 10. Conflicting Interests
- 11. Whose Good? The Egoist’s Answer
- 12. Whose Good? The Utilitarian’s Answer
- 13. Self-Denial, Self-Love, Universal Concern
- 14. Pain, Self-Love, and Altruism
- 15. Agent-Neutrality and Agent-Relativity
- II. Good, Conation, and Pleasure
- 16. “Good” and “Good for”
- 17. “Good for” and Advantage
- 18. “Good that” and “Bad that”
- 19. Pleasure and Advantage
- 20. Good for S That P
- 21. The “for” of “Good for”
- 22. Plants, Animals, Humans
- 23. Ross on Human Nature
- 24. The Perspectival Reading of “Good for”
- 25. The Conative Approach to Well-Being
- 26. Abstracting from the Content of Desires and Plans
- 27. The Faulty Mechanisms of Desire Formation
- 28. Infants and Adults
- 29. The Conation of an Ideal Self
- 30. The Appeal of the Conative Theory
- 31. Conation Hybridized
- 32. Strict Hedonism
- 33. Hedonism Diluted
- III. Prolegomenon to Flourishing
- 34. Development and Flourishing: The General Theory
- 35. Development and Flourishing: The Human Case
- 36. More Examples of What Is Good
- 37. Appealing to Nature
- 38. Sensory Un-flourishing
- 39. Affective Flourishing and Un-flourishing
- 40. Hobbes on Tranquillity and Restlessness
- 41. Flourishing and Un-flourishing as a Social Being
- 42. Cognitive Flourishing and Un-flourishing
- 43. Sexual Flourishing and Un-flourishing
- 44. Too Much and Too Little
- 45. Comparing Lives and Stages of Life
- 46. Adding Goods: Rawls’s Principle of Inclusiveness
- 47. Art, Science, and Culture
- 48. Self-Sacrifice
- 49. The Vanity of Fame
- 50. The Vanity of Wealth
- 51. Making Others Worse-Off
- 52. Virtues and Flourishing
- 53. The Good of Autonomy
- 54. What Is Good and Why
- IV. The Sovereignty of Good
- 55. The Importance of What Is Good for Us
- 56. Good’s Insufficiency
- 57. Promises
- 58. Retribution
- 59. Cosmic Justice
- 60. Social Justice
- 61. Pure Antipaternalism
- 62. Moral Space and Giving Aid
- 63. Slavery
- 64. Torture
- 65. Moral Rightness Revisited
- 66. Lying
- 67. Honoring the Dead
- 68. Meaningless Goals and Symbolic Value
- 69. Good-Independent Realms of Value
- 70. Good Thieves and Good Human Beings
- 71. Final Thoughts
- Works Cited
- Index
What Is Good and Why
The Ethics of Well-Being
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Publication Date: 05/15/2009
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