The Methods of Ethics Paperback / softback
by Henry Sidgwick
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Philosophy series
Paperback / softback
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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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- Pages:634 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/2011
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- ISBN:9781108040365
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:634 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:01/12/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108040365
