Sidgwick's ethics and Victorian moral philosophy /
This analysis of Sidgwick's 'Methods of Ethics' discusses why Sidgwick made his philosophy a synthesis of his predecessors' work. The second part involves a commentary on the main topics of 'Methods', while the third part examines Sidgwick's critique of the two mai...
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Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press,
1977.
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- Contents
- Texts and References
- Introduction
- PART I: TOWARDS THE METHODS OF ETHICS
- 1. The Development of Sidgwick's Thought
- i. Sidgwick's Life
- ii. Religion in the 1860s
- iii. Sidgwick's Religious Development
- iv. Sidgwick's Writings on Religion
- v. Sidgwick's Early Ethical Views
- vi. Sidgwick on Knowledge and Philosophy
- 2. Intuitionism and Common Sense
- i. Reid's Ethics
- ii. The Scottish School
- iii. Thomas Brown
- iv. Alexander Smith
- 3. The Cambridge Moralists
- i. Coleridge
- ii. The Coleridgeans
- iii. Whewell's Ethics: The System
- iv. Whewell's Ethics: The Difficulties
- v. John Grote
- 4. The Early Utilitarians
- i. Utility and Religion
- ii. Bentham
- iii. Godwin
- iv. Early Criticism
- 5. The Reworking of Utilitarianism
- i. Utilitarians and Rules
- ii. J. S. Mill: Philosophy and Society
- iii. Some Further Criticisms of Utilitarianism
- iv. The Other Utilitarians
- v. Mill's Utilitarianism and its Reception
- PART II: THE METHODS OF ETHICS
- 6. The Aims and Scope of The Methods of Ethics
- i. The Focus on Common Sense
- ii. The Relation of Method to Principle
- iii. The Basic Methods
- iv. Ethics, Epistemology, and Psychology
- v. Ethics and Free Will
- vi. The Limits to Synthesis
- 7. Reason and Action
- i. The Basic Notion
- ii. Reason, Right, Ought, and Good
- iii. The Neutrality of Practical Concepts
- iv. Scepticism
- Appendix: The Development of I, iii and I, ix
- 8. Acts and Agents
- i. Martineau's Theory
- ii. The Religious Context of Martineau's Theory
- iii. Sidgwick's Criticisms: The Data
- iv. Sidgwick's Criticisms: The Theory
- v. The Outcome of the Controversy
- 9. The Examination of Common-Sense Morality
- i. The Role of the Examination
- ii. The Principles of the Examination
- iii. Common Sense Examined.
- Iv. The Dependence Argument
- 10. The Self-Evident Axioms
- i. Some Methodological Concerns
- ii. The Axioms Stated
- iii. The Source and Function of the Axioms
- iv. Axioms and Substantive Principles
- 11. The Transition to Utilitarianism
- i. Virtue and the Ultimate Good
- ii. Pleasure
- iii. Pleasure and the Ultimate Good
- 12. Utilitarianism and its Method
- i. Utilitarianism Stated
- ii. The Systematization Argument
- iii. The Search for a Code
- iv. Rules and Exceptions
- v. Utilitarianism and Common Sense
- 13. The Dualism of the Practical Reason
- i. The Viability of Egoism
- ii. Egoism and the Systematization Argument
- iii. The Axiom of Egoism
- iv. The Necessity of Egoism
- v. The Problem of the Dualism
- vi. The Final Uncertainty
- PART III: AFTER THE METHODS
- 14. Sidgwick and the Later Victorians
- i. Evolutionism
- ii. Idealism: F. H. Bradley
- iii. Idealism: T. H. Green
- 15. Sidgwick and the History of Ethics
- i. Sidgwick's History of Ethics
- ii. Sidgwick in the History of Ethics
- BIBLIOGRAPHIES
- I. Henry Sidgwiek: Manuscripts and Published Writings
- II. (a) Checklist of Moralists, 1785-1900
- (b) Literature on John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism, 1861-76
- III. General Bibliography
- Index
- A
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- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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