Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy by J B Schneewind

Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy by J B Schneewind

Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics gave the problems of ethics the form in which they have dominated British and American philosophy ever since. In this historical study of Sidgwick's philosophy, J.B. Schneewind demonstrates how Sidgwick's work developed rationally out of the work of his predecessors and examines the reasoning underlying Sidgwick's arguments and conclusions. Beginning with an overview of Sidgwick's intellectual development, moving on to a philosophical commentary on the Methods, and concluding with an investigation of Sidgwick's response to evolutionism, idealism, and the writing of his History of Ethics, Schneewind offers a sound historical grasp of the problems Sidgwick was trying to solve as well as a clear understanding of the solutions he offered.

J. B. Schneewind is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He has studied at Cornell and Princeton and has taught at Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Hunter, Stanford, Leicester, Halle, Helsinki, and Johns Hopkins. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has been
Chair of the Board of the Americal Philosopical Association and was awarded a Quinn Prize for Distinguished Service.

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ISBN 13	9780198249313
ISBN 10	0198249314
Title	Sidgwick's Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy
Author	J B Schneewind
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1986-11-01
Number of pages	482
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