What is good and why : the ethics of well-being
(Book)

In search of good

A Socratic question

Flourishing and well-being

Mind and value

Utilitarianism

Rawls and the priority of the right

Right, wrong, should

The elimination of moral rightness

Rules and good

Categorical imperatives

Conflicting interests

Whose good? The egoist's answer

Whose good? The utilitarian's answer - Self-denial, self-love, universal concern

Pain, self-love, and altruism

Agent-neutrality and agent-relativity

Good, conation, and pleasure

"Good" and "good for"

"Good for" and advantage

"Good that" and "Bad that"

Pleasure and advantage

Good for S that P

The "for" of "good for"

Plants, animals, humans

Ross on human nature

The perspectival reading of "good for"

The conative approach to well-being

Abstracting from the content of desires and plans

The faulty mechanisms of desire formation

Infants and adults

The conation of an ideal self

The appeal of the conative theory

Conation hybridized

Strict hedonism

Hedonism diluted

Prolegomenon to flourishing

Development and flourishing: the general theory

Development and flourishing: the human case

More examples of what is good

Appealing to nature

Sensory un-flourishing

Affective flourishing and un-flourishing

Hobbes on tranquility and restlessness

Flourishing and un-flourishing as a social being

Cognitive flourishing and un-flourishing

Sexual flourishing and un-flourishing

Too much and too little

Comparing lives and stages of life

Adding goods: Rawls's principle of inclusiveness

Art, science, and culture

Self-sacrifice

The vanity of fame

The vanity of wealth

Making others worse-off

Virtues and flourishing

The good of autonomy

What is good and why

The sovereignty of good

The importance of what is good for us

Good's insufficiency

Promises

Retribution

Cosmic justice

Social justice

Pure antipaternalism

Moral space and giving aid

Slavery

Torture

Moral rightness revisited

Lying

Honoring the dead

Meaningless goals and symbolic value

Good-independent realms of value

Good thieves and good human beings

Final thoughts.