The English Utilitarians
3 Volume Paperback Set
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy
- Author: Leslie Stephen
- Date Published: December 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108041034
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Leslie Stephen (1832–1904), author, literary critic, social commentator and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, published his two-volume History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (also reissued in this series) in 1876. This led him to further investigation and study of utilitarianism, whose proponents believed that human action should be guided by the principle of ensuring the happiness of the greatest number of people. While working on many other projects, especially the Dictionary, and haunted by domestic tragedy in the sudden death of his second wife in 1895, Stephen struggled for two decades with this undertaking, calling it the 'utilitarian bog': the long-awaited three-volume work was finally published in 1900. It examines the background to utilitarian theories and their development in Britain, focusing on the work of Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and John Stuart Mill.
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108041034
- length: 1266 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 75 mm
- weight: 1.74kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Volume 1: Preface
Introductory
1. Political condition
2. The industrial spirits
3. Social problems
4. Philosophy
5. Bentham's life
6. Bentham's doctrine
Note on Bentham's writings. Volume 2:
1. James Mill
2. Reform movements
3. Political theory
4. Malthus
5. Ricardo
6. Economic heretics
7. Psychology
8. Religion. Volume 3:
1. John Stuart Mill's life
2. Mill's logic
3. Political economy
4. Politics and ethics
5. Historical method
6. Philosophy
Index.
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