Richard Kraut


Richard Kraut is the Emeritus Charles and Emma Morrison Professor in the Humanities at Northwestern University and a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy.

Education and career

Richard Kraut got his M.S. from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1969 under the supervision of Gregory Vlastos. He joined the philosophy department at the University of Illinois, Chicago in 1969, and taught there until 1995, when he moved to Northwestern University.

Books

Socrates and the State.Aristotle on the Human Good.Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII, traduction avec commentaires.Aristotle: Political Philosophy What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being.How to Read Plato.Against Absolute Goodness.

Editor

Articles

Two Conceptions of Happiness, The Philosophical Review 88,., The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press, 1992,.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, 1999Doing Without Morality: Reflections on the Meaning of Dein in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, mai 2006,.How to Justify Ethical Propositions, in Richard Kraut, The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics,, A Companion to Socrates. Blackwell.An Aesthetic Reading of Aristotle’s Ethics. In Verity Harte and Melissa Lane, 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,.“Précis: Against Absolute Goodness” and “Replies to Stroud, Thomson, and Crisp,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 87, nº 2, et, septembre 2013.