Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)

Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed (Guides for the Perplexed)
Krister Bykvist (Author)

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Utilitarianism

<div><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 27.5pt">U</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">tilitarianism is the ethical theory advanced by Jeremy Bentham, J.S. Mill, and Henry Sidgwick and has contributed significantly to contemporary moral and political philosophy. Yet it is not without controversy and is a subject that students can often find particularly perplexing. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Utilitarianism: A Guide for the Perplexed</i> offers a concise, yet fully comprehensive introduction to utilitarianism, its historical roots, key themes, and current debates.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p> </o:p></span> <br/><p style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Krister Bykvist provides a survey of the modern debate about utilitarianism and goes on to evaluate utilitarianism in comparison with other theories, in particular virtue ethics and Kantianism. Bykvist offers a critical examination of utilitarianism, distinguishing problems that are unique to utilitarianism from those that are shared by other moral theories. Focusing on the problems unique to utilitarianism, the book provides a well-balanced assessment of where the theory goes astray and is in need of revision. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of utilitarianism, this book serves as an ideal companion to study of this influential and challenging of philosophical concepts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br/><p style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none" class=MsoNormal><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span> </p></div>>

• Rank: #1668427 in Books
• Published on: 2010-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x .59" w x 5.43" l, .55 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 186 pages

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Philosophy-General

Utilitarianism and Other Essays

Utilitarianism and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill (Author), Jeremy Bentham (Author), Alan Ryan (Introduction)
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Utilitarianism

One of the most important nineteenth-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for 'the greatest happiness of the greatest number'. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) was the movement's founder, as much a social reformer as a philosopher. His greatest interpreter, John Stuart Mill (1806-73), set out to humanize Bentham's pragmatic Utilitarianism by balancing the claims of reason and the imagination, individuality and social well-being in essays such as 'Bentham', 'Coleridge' and, above all, Utilitarianism. The works by Bentham and Mill collected in this volume show the creation and development of a system of ethics that has had an enduring influence on moral philosophy and legislative policy.

• Rank: #377729 in Books
• Published on: 1987-08-04
• Released on: 1987-08-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x .79" w x 5.08" l, .57 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

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Categories: Ethics, Modern->19th century, 19th Century English Fiction & Literature Classics, Utilitarianism. Contributors: John Stuart Mill - Author. Format: Paperback

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Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Utilitarianism and Other Essays by John Stuart Mill Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it, aiming for the greatest happiness of the greatest number . This book shows the creation and development of a system of ethics that has had an enduring influence on moral philosophy and le

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Utilitarianism and Other Essays, ISBN-13: 9780140432725, ISBN-10: 0140432728