[PDF] Essays On Henry Sidgwick eBook

Author : Bart Schultz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521893046

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In this volume a distinguished group of philosophers reassesses the full range of Sidgwick's work, not simply his ethical theory, but also his contributions as a historian of philosophy, a political theorist, and a reformer.

Author : Henry Sidgwick
Publisher : Thoemmes
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 13,2 MB
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :

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Henry Sidgwick is best known for his classic The Method of Ethics, although his fame as a moral philosopher has tended to obscure his contributions to other subjects. These two volumes of essays and reviews attempt to redress the balance.

Author : Bart Schultz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139453929

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Henry Sidgwick was one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork The Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. He also wrote on economics, politics, education and literature. He was deeply involved in the founding of the first college for women at the University of Cambridge. He was also much concerned with the sexual politics of his close friend John Addington Symonds, a pioneer of gay studies. Through his famous student, G. E. Moore, a direct line can be traced from Sidgwick and his circle to the Bloomsbury group. Bart Schultz has written a magisterial overview of this great Victorian sage. This biography will be eagerly sought out by readers interested in philosophy, Victorian literary studies, the history of ideas, the history of psychology and gender and gay studies.

Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher :
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,93 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198716354

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Roger Crisp presents a comprehensive study of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics, a landmark work first published in 1874. Crisp argues that Sidgwick is largely right about many central issues in moral philosophy: the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, consequentialism, hedonism about well-being, and the weight to be given to self-interest. He holds that Sidgwick's long discussion of 'common-sense' morality is probably the best discussion of deontology we have. And yet The Methods of Ethics can be hard to understand, and this is perhaps one reason why, though it is a philosophical goldmine, few have ventured deeply into it. What does Sidgwick mean by a 'method'? Why does he discuss only three methods? What are his arguments for hedonism and for utilitarianism? How can we make sense of the idea of moral intuition? What is the role of virtue in Sidgwick's ethics? Crisp addresses these and many other questions, offering a fresh view of Sidgwick's text which will assist any moral philosopher to gain more from it.

Author : Henry Sidgwick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198250223

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'Essays on Ethics and Method' is a selection of shorter writings on the 19th century philosopher Henry Sidgewick. The essays develop further Sidgewick's ethical ideas and illuminate other aspects of his thought.

Author : Henry Sidgwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108043933

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An examination of theoretical and practical aspects of governance, published in 1891 by one of Britain's leading political philosophers.