Books written by Richard Kraut

Socrates and the State

Wasserstrom , Richard . " The Obligation to Obey the Law . " In Today's Moral Problems , 1st ed . , edited by Richard Wasserstrom , pp . 358384. New York : Macmillan Publishing Co. , 1975. ( This paper does not appear in the second ...
Against Absolute Goodness

C. Robert. Merrihew. Adams. on. the. Highest. Good. properties—being good and being good for someone—are not, to his. In Finite and Infinite Goods,1 Robert Merrihew Adams proposes what he calls a “framework for ethics” that places a ...
The Cambridge Companion to Plato

Fourteen new essays discuss Plato's views about knowledge, reality, mathematics, politics, ethics, love, poetry, and religion in a convenient, accessible guide that analyzes the intellectual and social background of his thought as well.
Aristotle: Political Philosophy

This book presents a wide-ranging overview of Aristotle's political thought that makes him come alive as a philosopher who can speak to our own times.
Aristotle on the Human Good

This book also emphasizes the philosopher's hierarchy of natural kinds, in which every type of creature achieves its good by imitating divine life.
Plato's Republic: Critical Essays

Designed for courses in the history of philosophy, social and political theory, government, and Plato specifically, Plato's Republic: Critical Essays will enrich students' understanding of this profoundly influential work.
Socrates and the State

So when he says in the above passage that he always makes “ the same statement : I don't know how these things stand ... So the early dialogues give us two conflicting pictures of Socrates ' epistemology : according to one , he merely ...
The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised

The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being.
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being

What is good, how do we know, and how important is it? Kraut reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish.
Against Absolute Goodness

2. These ideas play a leading role in the aestheticism of such figures as William Wordsworth, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. For a fascinating study of these and later authors, see Douglas Mao, Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic ...
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being

Ross , following Moore's lead , holds that cer- tain states of affairs are good " sans phrase " and argues that the elemen- tary building blocks of such states are pleasure , knowledge , virtue , and the proper apportionment of pleasure ...
Against Absolute Goodness

"When one reads this, one sees the possibility of real philosophical progress. If Kraut is right, I'd be wrong to say that this book is good, period. Or even great, period.
The Cambridge Companion to Plato

A rich and wide-ranging Companion to Plato's philosophy that is accessible to students while of equal interest to scholars.
Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays

The essays in this volume aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy.
Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays

The essays in this volume aim to address, implicitly or explicitly, this very question about the relevance of Arisotle's thinking in contemporary political philosophy.
The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

The structure of the book mirrors the organization of the Nichomachean Ethics itself. Discusses the human good, the general nature of virtue, the distinctive characteristics of particular virtues, voluntariness, self-control, and pleasure.
Aristotle on the Human Good

This book also emphasizes the philosopher's hierarchy of natural kinds, in which every type of creature achieves its good by imitating divine life.