The English utilitarians Volume 1, Jeremy Bentham Volume 1, Jeremy Bentham
Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), author, literary critic, social commentator and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, published his two-volume History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (also reissued in this series) in 1876. This led him to further investigation and study...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2012.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
Cambridge library collection. Philosophy. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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| Sumario: | Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), author, literary critic, social commentator and the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, published his two-volume History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century (also reissued in this series) in 1876. This led him to further investigation and study of utilitarianism, whose proponents believed that human action should be guided by the principle of ensuring the happiness of the greatest number of people. While working on many other projects, especially the Dictionary, and haunted by domestic tragedy in the sudden death of his second wife in 1895, Stephen struggled for two decades with this undertaking, calling it the 'utilitarian bog': the long-awaited three-volume work was finally published in 1900. Volume 1 gives the social and political context of the rise of utilitarianism and examines its leading theorist, Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832). |
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| Notas: | Publicado originalmente en: London : Duckworth and Co, 1900. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 recurso electrónico (viii, 326 p.) |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9781139149914 |
