The English philosopher and moralist Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) was the author of The Methods of Ethics, which has been described as the "best treatise on moral theory that has ever been written." Henry Sidgwick was born in Yorkshire and attended Rugby...

Although mainly remembered as the author of what many critics consider the most important book on ethics written in nineteenth-century Britain, The Methods of Ethics (1874), Henry Sidgwick was a man of broad interests and wide-ranging knowledge. He...

. 1838–1900. Born in Yorkshire, he worked in Cambridge, and is best known as a leading UTILITARIAN. He claimed that a kind of HEDONISTIC utilitarianism underlies common sense morality. He also wrote on economics, the nature of philosophy, and the...

Sidgwick, Henry(1838–1900) Henry Sidgwick, the English philosopher and educator, was born in Yorkshire and attended Rugby and Trinity College, Cambridge. After a brilliant undergraduate career, he was appointed a fellow at Trinity in 1859. He...

Sidgwick, Henry [addendum] Henry Sidgwick is renowned for giving classical utilitarianism its most sophisticated dress and greatly advancing substantive ethical theory. Celebrated for his clarity and cool impartiality, he developed an approach to...

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