A Theory of the Good: A New Account of the Value of Life, Love, Freedom, Knowledge, Beauty, and the Environment

by Christopher Kelly

"In this remarkable book, Christopher Kelly offers a solution to the fundamental problem in philosophy-the nature of goodness. Philosophers are concerned with other problems-the nature of knowledge, reason, consciousness, happiness, life, beauty, love, and virtue, to name a few-but this is because these things seem good. Nihilists hold the bleak, implausible view that nothing is good. Subjectivists hold that things are good just to the extent that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0986123013
• ISBN13: 9780986123016
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Now Experience Books
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"