Richard Kraut got his M.S. from the University of Michigan, and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1969.

Books edit

• Socrates and the State (Princeton UP: 1984).
• Aristotle on the Human Good (Princeton UP: 1989).
• Aristotle Politics Books VII and VIII, traduction avec commentaires (Clarendon: 1997).
• Aristotle: Political Philosophy (Oxford UP: 2002)
• What is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being (Harvard UP: 2007).
• How to Read Plato (Granta Books : 2008).
• Against Absolute Goodness (Oxford University Press: 2011).

Editor edit

• The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge, 1992).
• Plato's Republic: Critical Essays (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
• Aristotle's Politics: Critical Essays (with Steven Skultety, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
• The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (2006)

Articles edit

• Two Conceptions of Happiness, The Philosophical Review 88 (1979), p. 167-197. (Reprinted in Louis Pojman, ed., Ethical Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1989; also in William H. Shaw, ed., Social and Personal Ethics, Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1993, and in T.I. Irwin, ed., Articles on Greek and Roman Philosophy, Garland Publishing Inc.
• The Defense of Justice in Plato's Republic, in R. Kraut (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 311-337.
• 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, 1999
• Doing Without Morality: Reflections on the Meaning of Dein in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, mai 2006, p. 169-200.
• How to Justify Ethical Propositions, in Richard Kraut (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, (2006, p. 76-95.
• The Examined Life, Sara Ahbel-Rappe & Rachana Kamtekar (eds.), A Companion to Socrates. Blackwell (2006, pp. 228–42).
• An Aesthetic Reading of Aristotle’s Ethics. In Verity Harte and Melissa Lane (eds.), 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, p. 307-322.
• “Précis: Against Absolute Goodness” and “Replies to Stroud, Thomson, and Crisp,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 87, nº 2, p. 457-8 et p. 483-501, septembre 2013.