ambitious, well-written, and successfully delivers on interesting and novel approaches to persistent problems relating to the nature of well-being, reasons, and equality. ... a lovely book. * Julia Driver, Journal of Utilitas *
Roger Crisp belong in the company of Derek Parfit and Peter Sinder as one of the distinguished contemporary philosophical defenders of the legacy of Henry Sidgwick...This is an excellent work - clear, concise, and compelling. And it packs a powerful philosophical punch. * Bart Schultz, Ethics *
Because the book covers such a range of issues in such a short and well integrated way, reading it will be illuminating for many...I can see ample reason for a moral philosopher to read this book: for its stimulation and sweep, and to wake one from one's dogmatic slumbers. Nod off for a second here, and you will miss crucial arguments entirely. * Henry S. Richardson, Mind *
Crisp advances substantial theses about reasons, welfare, pleasure, moral knowledge, intuition, moral disagreement, personal identity, impartiality, population axiology, and more...this bold and sweeping work contains quite a number of provocative discussions of interest to theoretical ethicists of many stripes. * Chris Heathwood, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
The book is sparklingly clear and contains abundant insights and interesting arguments...a rich and rewarding book which will contribute greatly to a number of debates throughout moral philosophy. * Guy Fletcher, Ratio *
In little more than one hundred and fifty pages of lively prose Reason and the Good covers half a dozen fundamental issues in normative theory, any one of which could easily fill a book on its own...a useful panoramic view of one intuitionist approach to normative theory, one that should be valuable to non-specialists, graduate students, and even advanced undergraduates. * Sean McKeever, Review of Metaphysics *
