The Methods of Ethics
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- Author: Henry Sidgwick
- Date Published: December 2011
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108040365
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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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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108040365
- length: 634 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 36 mm
- weight: 0.79kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Book I:
1. Introduction
2. Morality and law
3. Moral reason
4. Pleasure and desire
5. Free will
6. The methods of ethics
7. Egoism and self-love
8. Intuitionism
9. Good
Book II. Egoism:
1. The principle and method of egoism
2. Empirical hedonism
3. Empirical hedonism (continued)
4. Hedonism and common sense
5. Happiness and duty
6. Other forms of the egoistic method
Book III. Intuitionism:
1. Intuitionism
2. Virtue and duty
3. The intellectual virtues
4. Benevolence
5. Justice
6. Law and contract
7. Classification of duties. Truth
8. Other social duties and virtues
9. Selfregarding virtues
10. Courage, humility, &c.
11. Review of the morality of common sense
12. Motives or springs of action as subjects of moral judgment
13. Philosophical intuitionism
14. The summum bonum
Book IV. Utilitarianism:
1. The meaning of utilitarianism
2. The proof of utilitarianism
3. The proof of utilitarianism (continued)
4. The method of utilitarianism
5. The method of utilitarianism (continued)
6. The sanctions of utilitarianism
Supplement to the first edition of The Methods of Ethics, containing all the important additions and alterations in the second edition, 1877.
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