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 subsequently offers his alternative. In this article I will explain the Desire Satisfaction Theory as Kraut opposes it, defend Kraut's objections against the Desire Satisfaction Theory, and evaluate his alternative theory. Christian philosophies, the answer to the question “what makes a life go better?” it's always a narrow answer. With a few variations the only life that is good and worth living, for the aforementioned schools of thought, is the one spent developing an understanding of nature and metaphysics, or rather the life spent as a philosopher. However, by far the most popular position today is that of pluralism. Pluralism is the concept that there are multiple ways of living that result in a better life; Desire satisfaction theory attempts to offer a justification for pluralism. Desire satisfaction theory states that: a life is better if and only if the desires for that life are satisfied. The variability of desires from person to person, together with the Desire Satisfaction Theory, makes it possible to have many different types of life but all capable of making the life of anyone who wishes to live them go well; for example, if someone wishes to earn a living as an engineer, the realization of that wish will make his life go better, and at the same time another person who wishes to write music would be better off studying music rather than engineering. Kraut makes some modifications to this basic idea of ​​Desire Satisfaction Theory to give… middle of the paper… his main example of this is the decisions that unguided children would make about their lives. While a child would have some necessary desires, such as food, stimulation, warmth, and touch, that child also lacks desires for what we consider to make life go better (desires to develop skills and to be raised in the mores of society). objection, a proponent of the Desire Satisfaction Theory might object: to remedy these concerns one would have to make a further extension to the theory, namely that the satisfaction of one's future desires is also a component of a good life. While this change solves the problem of not having ideal desires in one's youth, it does nothing to reconcile the problems caused by someone forming bad desires out of not knowing or not caring about what makes their life go better. Works Cited Response to Kraut's Desire and the Human Bene