Sidgwick''s the Methods of Ethics - A Guide

Author David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.

List of contents

• Chapter One: Introduction (Methods Prefaces)


• Chapter Two: Sidgwick's Project and the Three Methods (Methods I.I and I.VI)


• Chapter Three: Meaning, Motivation, and Free Will (Methods I.III, I.IV, and I.V)


• Chapter Four: Intuitionism and Goodness (Methods I.VIII and I.IX)


• Chapter Five: The Method of Egoism (Methods I.VII and Book II)


• Chapter Six: The Critique of Common-Sense Morality (Methods III.I-III.XI)


• Chapter Seven: Philosophical Intuitionism (Methods III.XIII)


• Chapter Eight: Hedonism (Methods III.XIV)


• Chapter Nine: Utilitarianism: Meaning and Proof (Methods IV.I and IV.II)


• Chapter Ten: Utilitarianism and Common-Sense Morality (Methods IV.III, IV.IV, and IV.V)


• Chapter Eleven: The Dualism of Practical Reason (Methods Concluding Chapter)

About the author

David Phillips is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston. His research interests are in ethics and the history of ethics with a particular focus on British moral philosophers. He is the author of Sidgwickian Ethics (OUP, 2011) and of Rossian Ethics: W.D. Ross and Contemporary Moral Theory (OUP, 2019).

Summary

Author David Phillips has produced a clear, concise guide to Henry Sidgwick's masterpiece of classical utilitarian thought, The Methods of Ethics, setting it in its intellectual and cultural context while drawing out its main insights into a variety of fields.

Additional text

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Product details

• Authors: David Phillips, David (Professor of Philosophy Phillips, Phillips David
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.10.2022
• EAN: 9780197539620
• ISBN: 978-0-19-753962-0
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Oxford Guides to Philosophy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy