Chiefly papers presented at a conference called "Henry Sidgwick as Philosopher and Historian" held at the University of Chicago, May 18-20, 1990.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Chicago from May 18 through May 20, 1990.
Introduction : Henry Sidgwick today / Bart Schultz -- Sidgwick and nineteenth-century British ethical thought / Marcus G. Singer -- Sidgwick and the Cambridge moralists / J.B. Schneewind -- Sidgwick and Whewellian intuitionism : some enigmas / Alan Donagan -- Common sense at the foundations / Russell Hardin -- Sidgwick's pessimism / J.L. Mackie -- Sidgwick and the history of ethical dualism / Wiliam K. Frankena -- Sidgwick and the rationale for rational egoism / David O. Brink -- Sidgwick on ethical judgment / John Deigh -- Sidgwick on desire, pleasure, and the good / Thomas Christiano -- Eminent Victorians and Greek ethics : Sidgwick, Green, and Aristotle / T.H. Irwin -- The attractive and the imperative : Sidgwick's view of Greek ethics / Nicholas P. White.
The ordinary experience of civilized life : Sidgwick's politics and the method of reflective analysis / Stefan Collini -- Rethinking tradition : Sidgwick and the philosophy of the via media / James T. Kloppenberg.