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Ma, Henry Sidgwick

 
9781333150358: Methods of Ethics (Classic Reprint)

Sinopsis

Enhance your understanding of Sidgwick’s ethical project with a clarified, expanded companion edition.

This volume presents all the important additions and alterations from the second edition of The Methods of Ethics, explained and justified for readers of the first edition. It expands the practical scope, revises key arguments, and clarifies how ethics relates to politics, psychology, and the theory of evolution. Readers will encounter a more explicit treatment of happiness, well-being, and the role of moral sentiments in shaping conduct.



The book reworks several chapters to improve clarity, address critics, and give a fuller account of the plan and methods Sidgwick uses. It foregrounds the three main approaches to right conduct—intuitional, utilitarian, and egoistic methods—and explores how they interact in everyday moral reasoning.




  • Updated discussions on Hedonism, common sense morality, and their practical implications

  • Revisions to the treatment of the Utilitarian method and the relation between happiness and duty

  • Expanded explanations of how ethics connects with politics and social norms

  • New material that responds to criticisms and clarifies the book’s overall framework



Ideal for readers of the original work, students of moral philosophy, and anyone seeking a clearer, more accessible edition of Sidgwick’s influential project.

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Excerpt from Methods of Ethics

On the other hand, the second view of Ethics is not naturally applicable to those systems which consider rightness of conduct to consist in conformity to absolute rules.

It is on account of the prevalence of the view just described, and the prominent place which it consequently occupies in my discussion, that in defining the subject of the present treatise I have avoided the term Art of Conduct'; which, to some writers, will appear the more appropriate designation for ethical method as I conceive it.

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