Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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
Part 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