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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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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy Ethics & moral philosophy

• Full title: Methods of Ethics
• Author: Henry Sidgwick
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 634
• EAN: 9781108040365
• ISBN: 1108040365
• ID: 02057353
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 866 g
• Dimensions: 214 × 144 × 39 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. December 2011

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