Christine Korsgaard gives her first Pufendorf lecture called "Good and Good-For" in this series on "A Natural History of the Good". The general aim of these lectures is to defend a conception of the Good that is compatible with a naturalistic conception of the world, or, to put it another way, it is to explain how the natural world came to contain things that are properly characterized as good and bad. Simply put, her thesis is that the Good came into the world with the existence of entities for whom things can be good or bad. In support of this thesis she will defend the claim that the concept of something's being good-for someone is prior to that of something's being good, and explain how we get from the fact of something's being good-for someone to its being good. She will then ask what sorts of beings can have a good, and explore the implications of the view for the existence of value in general, and for the relation between the right and the good.

This is from the 2013 Pufendorf Lectures.

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