Henry Sidgwick Eye Of The Universe

Author : Bart Schultz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139453920

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Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe by Bart Schultz Pdf

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 : Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek,Peter Singer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199603695

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The Point of View of the Universe by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek,Peter Singer Pdf

Tests the views and metaphor of 19th-century utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick against a variety of contemporary views on ethics, determining that they are defensible and thus providing a defense of objectivism in ethics and of hedonistic utilitarianism.

Author : Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek,Peter Singer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191022432

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The Point of View of the Universe by Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek,Peter Singer Pdf

What does the idea of taking 'the point of view of the universe' tell us about ethics? The great nineteenth-century utilitarian Henry Sidgwick used this metaphor to present what he took to be a self-evident moral truth: the good of one individual is of no more importance than the good of any other. Ethical judgments, he held, are objective truths that we can know by reason. The ethical axioms he took to be self-evident provide a foundation for utilitarianism. He supplements this foundation with an argument that nothing except states of consciousness have ultimate value, which led him to hold that pleasure is the only thing that is intrinsically good. Are these claims defensible? Katarzyna de Lazari-Radek and Peter Singer test them against a variety of views held by contemporary writers in ethics, and conclude that they are. This book is therefore a defence of objectivism in ethics, and of hedonistic utilitarianism. The authors also explore, and in most cases support, Sidgwick's views on many other key questions in ethics: how to justify an ethical theory, the significance of an evolutionary explanation of our moral judgments, the choice between preference-utilitarianism and hedonistic utilitarianism, the conflict between self-interest and universal benevolence, whether something that it would be wrong to do openly can be right if kept secret, how demanding utilitarianism is, whether we should discount the future, or favor those who are worse off, the moral status of animals, and what is an optimum population.

Author : Henry Sidgwick
Publisher : Gale and the British Library
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Ethics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021176888

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The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick Pdf

Author : Bart Schultz,Georgios Varouxakis
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 073911087X

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Utilitarianism and Empire by Bart Schultz,Georgios Varouxakis Pdf

The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those critical of it.

Author : Bart Schultz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691154770

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The Happiness Philosophers by Bart Schultz Pdf

A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other founders In The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism—one of the most influential yet misunderstood and maligned philosophies of the past two centuries. Best known for arguing that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong," utilitarianism was developed by the radical philosophers, critics, and social reformers William Godwin (the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley), Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill, and Henry Sidgwick. Together, they had a profound influence on nineteenth-century reforms, in areas ranging from law, politics, and economics to morals, education, and women's rights. Their work transformed life in ways we take for granted today. Bentham even advocated the decriminalization of same-sex acts, decades before the cause was taken up by other activists. As Bertrand Russell wrote about Bentham in the late 1920s, "There can be no doubt that nine-tenths of the people living in England in the latter part of last century were happier than they would have been if he had never lived." Yet in part because of its misleading name and the caricatures popularized by figures as varied as Dickens, Marx, and Foucault, utilitarianism is sometimes still dismissed as cold, calculating, inhuman, and simplistic. By revealing the fascinating human sides of the remarkable pioneers of utilitarianism, The Happiness Philosophers provides a richer understanding and appreciation of their philosophical and political perspectives—one that also helps explain why utilitarianism is experiencing a renaissance today and is again being used to tackle some of the world's most serious problems.

Author : Deen K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521527422

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The Ethics of Assistance by Deen K. Chatterjee Pdf

As globalization has deepened worldwide economic integration, moral and political philosophers have become increasingly concerned to assess duties to help needy people in foreign countries. The essays in this volume present ideas on this important topic by authors who are leading figures in these debates. At issue are both the political responsibility of governments of affluent countries to relieve poverty abroad and the personal responsibility of individuals to assist the distant needy. The wide-ranging arguments shed light on global distributive justice, human rights and their implementation, the varieties of community and the obligations they generate, and the moral relevance of distance. This provocative volume will interest scholars in ethics, political philosophy, political theory, international law and development economics, as well as policy makers, aid agencies, and general readers interested in the moral dimensions of poverty and affluence.

Author : Bart Schultz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521893046

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Essays on Henry Sidgwick by Bart Schultz Pdf

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 : William C. Lubenow
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843835592

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Liberal Intellectuals and Public Culture in Modern Britain, 1815-1914 by William C. Lubenow Pdf

Public life in Great Britain underwent a major transformation after the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts in 1828 and the passage of the Catholic Relief Act of 1829, which eliminated the requirement that men in public positions swear to uphold the doctrines of the Anglican Church. According to Lubenow (Stockton College), these legislative changes initiated a fundamental reallocation of power, opening many careers to men of talent and educational qualifications, including those whose perspectives and intellectual dispositions led them to question the validity of uniform religious dogma. Lubenow identifies members of the Benson, Strachey, Balfour, Lyttelton, and Sitwell families among the "Men of Letters" who epitomized the 19th century's new secular meritocracy, noting that when religious uniformity was removed as a requirement for positions in the public sphere, religion became more important, if more fluid, in the lives of such Britons. Thus, men of intellectual merit, rather than only those from the more conservative landowning or military traditions, were able to rise in politics, civil service, the clergy, the professions, and the universities, taking their liberal values regarding liberty, moral cultivation, and philosophy into the wider public sphere. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty. Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty. Reviewed by E. J. Jenkins.

Author : Stuart Hampshire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1978-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521293529

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Public and Private Morality by Stuart Hampshire Pdf

Collection of essays by well-known British and American philosophers on the moral principles by which public policies and political decisions should be judged: does effective political action necessarily involve and justify actions which the individual would regard as unacceptable in "private" morality?

Author : Thomas Hurka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191038549

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British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing by Thomas Hurka Pdf

Thomas Hurka presents the first full historical study of an important strand in the development of modern moral philosophy. His subject is a series of British ethical theorists from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. They disagreed on some important topics, especially in normative ethics. Thus some were consequentialists and others deontologists: Sidgwick thought only pleasure is good while others emphasized perfectionist goods such as knowledge, aesthetic appreciation, and virtue. But all were non-naturalists and intuitionists in metaethics, holding that moral judgements can be objectively true, have a distinctive subject-matter, and are known by direct insight. They also had similar views about how ethical theory should proceed and what are relevant arguments in it; their disagreements therefore took place on common ground. Hurka recovers the history of this under-appreciated group by showing what its members thought, how they influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributions critically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.

Author : Ben Jackson,Marc Stears
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199600670

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Liberalism as Ideology by Ben Jackson,Marc Stears Pdf

Liberalism is the dominant ideology of our time, yet its character remains the subject of intense scholarly and political controversy. Inspired by the work of Michael Freeden, this book brings together an internationally-respected cast of scholars to debate liberalism and to redefine the very essence of what it is to be a liberal.

Author : W. J. Mander
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199594474

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The Oxford Handbook of British Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century by W. J. Mander Pdf

This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the nineteenth century. A team of experts provide new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.--

Author : Roger Crisp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198716358

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The Cosmos of Duty by Roger Crisp Pdf

Argues that Sidgwick is largely correct about many central ethical questions in his 1874 book, but that it can be hard to understand and raises many qustions. Provides a comprehensive perspective on Methods of ethics.

Author : Georgios Varouxakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107039148

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Liberty Abroad by Georgios Varouxakis Pdf

A comprehensive analysis of the international political pronouncements of John Stuart Mill: the pre-eminent thinker of the liberal tradition.