In his article Desire and the Human Good, Richard Kraut argues that the typical defense of pluralism, the desire satisfaction theory, is too weak; Kraut then offers his own alternative. In this article, I will explain the desire satisfaction theory as Kraut opposes it, defend the objections made by Kraut against the desire satisfaction theory, and evaluate his alternative theory. In ancient Greek philosophies such as Platonic, Aristotelian, Stoic and Epicurean, as well as in medieval philosophy. Christian philosophies, the answer to the question “what makes life go best?” is always a narrow answer. With little variation, the only life that is good and worth living, for the aforementioned schools of thought, is the life spent developing an understanding of nature and metaphysics, or rather the life spent as a philosopher . However, the position that is by far the most popular today is that of pluralism. Pluralism is the concept that there are multiple ways of living that result in a better life; The desire satisfaction theory attempts to justify pluralism. Desire Satisfaction Theory states that: A life goes better if and only if the desires for that life are satisfied. The variability of desires from one person to another, as well as the theory of desire satisfaction, makes it possible to have many different types of lives, but all of which make the life of anyone who desires to live them go well; for example, if someone desires to earn a living as an engineer, the realization of that desire makes their life better, and at the same time, another person who desires to write music would be better off studying music rather than engineering. Kraut makes some modifications to this basic idea of ​​desire satisfaction theory in order to give...... middle of paper...... his main example is the deliberations that unguided children would make about their life. Even if a child has certain necessary desires for food, stimulation, warmth, and contact, that child also lacks desires for what we consider to be the best way to live (the desire to develop one's abilities and to nourish in the customs of society). Objection, a proponent of the desire satisfaction theory might argue: To address these concerns, a further extension should be made to the theory, i.e., the satisfaction of a person's future desires is also a component of a life going well. While this change solves the problem of not having ideal desires in youth, it does nothing to reconcile the problems caused by someone forming bad desires because they don't know or care about it. who makes his life go best. GOOD