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The Methods of Ethics

By Henry Sidgwick

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781108040365, 1108040365, 9781139136617, 1139136615
DOI
10.1017/CBO9781139136617
Google Books ID
tDtUIndD2b8C
Open Library ID
OL29088951M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
29 MB (30487706 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection; Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
Pages
\634
Library
Cambridge Core
Orientation
yes
Paginated
no
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2025-01-24 04:49:08
Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; Philosophy: General

Description

One of the most influential of the Victorian philosophers, Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) also made important contributions to fields such as economics, political theory, and classics. An active promoter of higher education for women, he founded Cambridge's Newnham College in 1871. He attended Rugby School and then Trinity College, Cambridge, where he remained his whole career. In 1859 he took up a lectureship in classics, and held this post for ten years. In 1869, he moved to a lectureship in moral philosophy, the subject where he left arguably his greatest mark when he produced this work, regarded as his masterpiece. Published in 1874, the book argues the utilitarian approach to ethics, and a systematic and historically sensitive approach to ethical research that influenced utilitarian philosophers well into the twentieth century. It remains a valuable introduction to the philosophy, practice and history of ethics. This reissue includes the 1877 supplement.

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