"It is often thought that the rational thing to do must be to pursue one's own self-interest. This position is rational egoism. This book is the first extensive history and evaluation of rational egoism."--BOOK JACKET. "The author focuses on Hobbes and Sidgwick. They are, after …
"This book remedies the absence in the history of analytic philosophy of a detailed examination of G. E. Moore{u2019}s philosophical views as they developed between 1894 and 1902. This period saw the inauguration of analytic philosophy through the work of Moore and Bertrand Russ…
"Immanuel Kant and Henry Sidgwick are towering figures in the history of moral philosophy. Kant's views on ethics continue to be discussed and studied in detail not only in philosophy, but also theology, political science, and legal theory. Meanwhile, Sidgwick is emerging as the…
"Immanuel Kant and Henry Sidgwick are towering figures in the history of moral philosophy. Kant's views on ethics continue to be discussed and studied in detail not only in philosophy, but also theology, political science, and legal theory. Meanwhile, Sidgwick is emerging as the…
"Immanuel Kant and Henry Sidgwick are towering figures in the history of moral philosophy. Kant's views on ethics continue to be discussed and studied in detail not only in philosophy, but also theology, political science, and legal theory. Meanwhile, Sidgwick is emerging as the…
Bart Schultz has written a magisterial overview of Henry Sidgwick, one of the great intellectual figures of nineteenth-century Britain. This biography will be eagerly sought out by readers interested in philosophy, Victorian literary studies, the history of ideas, the history of…
