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.
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.
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).
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* 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)
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