Richard Kraut

Richard Kraut is the Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University.

Biography

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).
• Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Oxford UP: 2002)
• What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (Harvard UP: 2007).
• How to Read Plato (Granta Books : 2008).
• Against Absolute Goodness (Oxford University Press: 2011).

Editor

• The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge, 1992).
• Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
• Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (with Steven Skultety, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
• The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006)

Articles

• Two Conceptions of Happiness, The Philosophical Review 88 (1979), p. 167-197. (Reprinted in Louis Pojman, ed., Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1989; also in William H. Shaw, ed., Social and Personal Ethics, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993, and in T.I. Irwin, ed., Articles on Greek and Roman Philosophy, Garland Publishing Inc.
• The Defense of Justice in Plato's Republic, in R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 311-337.
• Return to the Cave: Republic 519-521, In Oxford Readings in Philosophy: Plato: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul, ed. by Gail Fine, Oxford University Press, 1999
• Doing Without Morality: Reflections on the Meaning of Dein in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, mai 2006, p. 169-200.
• How to Justify Ethical Propositions, in Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, (2006, p. 76-95.
• The Examined Life, Sara Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates. Blackwell (2006, pp. 228–42).
• An Aesthetic Reading of Aristotle’s Ethics. In Verity Harte and Melissa Lane (eds.), Politeia: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Schofield, Cambridge University Press, 2013.
• Human Diversity and the Nature of Well-Being: Reflections on Sumner’s Methodology, Res Philosophica, vol. 90, nº 3, juillet 2013, p. 307-322.
• “Précis: Against Absolute Goodness” and “Replies to Stroud, Thomson, and Crisp,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 87, nº 2, p. 457-8 et p. 483-501, septembre 2013.

References

1. Gregory Vlastos
2. Kraut (surname)
3. Semen
4. Philia
5. Pleonexia
6. Crito
7. Sophist (dialogue)
8. List of philosophers born in the 20th century
9. Rosalind Hursthouse
10. Jagdgeschwader 54
11. Theages
12. George S. Messersmith
13. List of The Jeffersons episodes
14. List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2016
15. Daniel O. Nathan
16. List of Northwestern University faculty
17. Plato
18. Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band
19. Jagdfliegerschule
20. List of American Academy of Arts and Sciences members (2006–2019)