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Richard Kraut got his M.S. from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1969. Bibliography Books. Socrates and the State (Princeton UP: 1984). Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton UP: 1989). Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII, traduction avec commentaires (Clarendon: 1997).
Ph.D. Princeton University. Curriculum Vitae. rkraut1@northwestern.edu. His interests include contemporary moral and political philosophy, as well as the ethics and political thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. He is the author of The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised (Oxford: 2018), Against Absolute Goodness (Oxford: 2011), and What is ...
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Professor Emeritus of Classics and Philosophy. PhD, Princeton University. rkraut1@northwestern.edu. Website. Richard Kraut’s interests include contemporary moral and political philosophy, as well as the ethics and political thought of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. His historical studies include Socrates and the State (Princeton: 1984 ...
Nov 17, 2007 · What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being is the first book-length contribution to contemporary ethical theory by this highly regarded scholar of ancient philosophy. . With it, Richard Kraut joins recent moral philosophers who draw inspiration from ancient Greek philosophy, particularly that of Plato and Aristotle, to advance lines of thinking that challenge utilitarianism and certain ...
Biography. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York; attended Erasmus Hall High School; received my B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, and my Ph. D. in Philosophy from Princeton. I taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1969 to 1995, and at Northwestern from 1995 to my retirement in 2023. I am married to Susan Kraut, who ...
May 15, 2009 · eBook. ISBN 9780674032378. Publication date: 05/15/2009. What is good? How can we know, and how important is it? In this book Richard Kraut, one of our most respected analytical philosophers, reorients these questions around the notion of what causes human beings to flourish--that is, what is good for us. Observing that we can sensibly talk ...
By Richard Kraut. Plato is the foundational thinker of European speculative thought. He was the first Western writer to undertake a comprehensive and rigorous study of the fundamental categories of reality and value, and few philosophers have escaped his influence or rivaled the depth of his works, many of which have remarkable dramatic power ...
