Henry Sidgwick (/ˈsɪdʒwɪk/; 31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist and is best known in philosophy for his...
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Utilitarianism (section Henry Sidgwick)
Bentham, and continued with such philosophers as John Stuart Mill, Henry Sidgwick, R. M. Hare, and Peter Singer. The concept has been applied towards...
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Ethical intuitionism (section Henry Sidgwick)
until Henry Sidgwick showed there to be several logically distinct theories, both normative and epistemological, sharing the same label. For Sidgwick, intuitionism...
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a book on ethics first published in 1874 by the English philosopher Henry Sidgwick. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy indicates that The Methods...
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British philosophy (section Henry Sidgwick)
the articles were collected and reprinted as a single book in 1863. Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900) also focused on utilitarian ethics and was one of the founders...
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The SPR was formally constituted on 20 February 1882 with philosopher Henry Sidgwick as its first president. The SPR was the first organisation of its kind...
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Classical utilitarians, including Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Henry Sidgwick, define happiness as pleasure and the absence of pain. To understand...
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schoolteacher Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick (1845–1936), English activist for higher education of women and wife of Henry Sidgwick Henry Sidgwick (1838–1900), English...
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organising Lectures for Ladies, members of which included philosopher Henry Sidgwick and suffragist campaigner Millicent Garrett Fawcett. It was the second...
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pleasure interferes with experiencing it. The utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick was first to note in The Methods of Ethics that the paradox of hedonism...
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