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SIDGWICK, HENRY (1838 – 1900). Henry Sidgwick, the English philosopher and educator, was born in Yorkshire and attended Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge.After a brilliant undergraduate career, he was appointed a fellow at Trinity in 1859. He had already begun to have religious doubts, and in the years following 1860 he studied Hebrew and Arabic intensively, hoping to resolve these doubts ...
Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) is widely regarded as the most enduringly significant figure in late 19th century Anglo-American moral philosophy. He is both the last of the three classical utilitarians (Bentham, Mill, and Sidgwick) and the first in a tradition of British intuitionists stretching into the mid 20th century and including Moore and ...
Henry Sidgwick was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist. He was the Knightbridge Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Cambridge from 1883 until his death, and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics.He was one of the founders and first president of the Society for Psychical Research and a member of the Metaphysical Society and ...
26 de ene. de 2009 · In Practical Ethics, Henry Sidgwick offers the distillation of a lifetime of reflection on how to relate moral theory and practice. This book provides both a model and a cautionary example. Its lucid, urbane, and broad-gauged approach to practical moral issues is exemplary; but its very lucidity also exposes the moral risks in Sidgwick's ...
5 de oct. de 2004 · Sidgwick was born on May 31, 1838, in the small Yorkshire town of Skipton. He was the second surviving son of Mary Crofts and the Reverend William Sidgwick, the headmaster of the grammar school in Skipton, who died when Henry was only three. Henry's older brother William went on to become an Oxford don, as did his younger brother Arthur.
Abstract. This chapter discusses the life and ethical philosophy of Henry Sidgwick. His masterpiece, The Methods of Ethics, first published in 1874, marks the culmination of the classical and nontheological utilitarian tradition, which took ‘the greatest happiness’ as the fundamental normative demand.Sidgwick was also a reformer who always advocated education as the crucial issue for ...
6 de oct. de 2022 · David Phillips’s book is a beautifully written and expertly curated aid to studying Henry Sidgwick’s The Methods of Ethics.Although some consider it one of the best books ever written in philosophical ethics (see Broad 1930, 143, Smart 1956, 347, and Parfit 2011, xxxiii), the Methods has a reputation (even amongst admirers) for being heavy going and at times dull and boring.
