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Circular Definitions of ‘Good’ and the Good of Circular Definitions
I defend the view that circular definitions can be useful and illuminating by focusing on the fitting-attitudes analysis of value. This definition...
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The good life as the life in touch with the good
What makes your life go well for you? In this paper, we give an account of welfare. Our core idea is simple. There are impersonally good and bad...
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Do good lives make good stories?
Narrativists about well-being claim that our lives go better for us if they make good stories—if they exhibit cohesion, thematic consistency, and...
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The Good Life An Introduction to Ethics
The book offers a historical-systematic overview of the most important concepts of ethics, each of which is presented using three to four exemplary...
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Good Anthropocene
Based on the scientific evidence of the alarming context of changing living conditions on Earth, this article analyses how the Anthropocene can be...
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When ‘Enough and as Good’ is Not Good Enough
Under what circumstances can people convert natural resources into private property? John Locke famously answered this question by positing what has...
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The premortalist free will defense
As a response to the problem of evil, the free will defense proposes that evil might exist as a consequence of God’s endowing human beings with moral...
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Being Good
This chapter discusses a broad normative concept of goodness. It is a natural disposition the exercise of which allows us to act in accord with our...
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Organizational Good Epistemic Practices
Epistemic practices are an important but underappreciated component of business ethics; good conduct requires making epistemically sound as well as...
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Is it Good Enough to be Good Qua Human? The Normative Independence of Attributive Goodness
Prima facie the norms of natural-teleology conflict with norms of morality and rationality. Morality often rejects behaviours that can promote...
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The ‘Good Kiwi’ and the ‘Good Environmental Citizen’?: Dairy, national identity and complex consumption-related values in Aotearoa New Zealand
Alongside concerns for animal welfare, concerns for land, water, and climate are undermining established food identities in many parts of the world....
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Introduction: On the Conflict Between Common Good and Individual Good
This introductory chapter delineates the purpose and content of the edited volume. It reflects on how the potential tension and compatibility between...
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Exploration of ethics, good, and unethical acts
Ethics and morality, fundamental concepts in human society, are expected to be upheld by individuals and effectively taught by teachers to new...
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Good Consumption in the Perspective of Thomistic Personalism
A large number of scholars and people of good will endeavour to reduce the scope and threat of the problems of environmental degradation and...
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Moving beyond production: community narratives for good farming
With a vast majority of the land in the Driftless Region of the Midwestern United States dedicated to agricultural production, the future of farming...
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Good reasons are apparent to the knowing subject
Reasons rationalize beliefs. Reasons, when all goes well, turn true beliefs into knowledge. I am interested in the relationship between these aspects...
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Good guesses as accuracy-specificity tradeoffs
Guessing is a familiar activity, one we engage in when we are uncertain of the answer to a question under discussion. It is also an activity that...
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The Fallacy of the Common Good in the Light of the Conversion of Ignatius of Loyola
The achievement of the common good is generally identified, specially in Christian social, economic and cultural environments, with the Kingdom of...
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Good and Evil in Recent Discussions - Good and Evil in Virtue Ethics
Talk about evil resonates in ways that are culturally inherited. Historical and religious dimensions of “evil” often seem to be front and center....