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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • seek to maximize the average or total amount of utility; following Henry Sidgwick's question, "Is it total or average happiness that we seek to make a...
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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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    suggest a resolution to what the late 19th century British philosopher Henry Sidgwick called “the profoundest problem of ethics", the apparent rationality...
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    1876 she married (and became converted to feminism by) the philosopher Henry Sidgwick. In 1880 she became Vice-Principal of Newnham under the founding Principal...
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    but the concept has been traced back to the Victorian philosopher Henry Sidgwick. Market failures are often associated with public goods, time-inconsistent...
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  • new edition 2002 Foundations of Morality at the Mises Institute Hazlitt, Henry (1964). The Foundations of Morality. Irvington-on-Hudson,NY: Foundation...
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  • for the socialist development of human society. English philosopher Henry Sidgwick discussed rational egoism in his book The Methods of Ethics, first published...
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    Machine (1902) by Henry Sidgwick. Spencer-smashing at Washington (1894) by Lester F. Ward. A Perplexed Philosopher (1892) by Henry George. Remarks on...
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    now an emeritus fellow. He has delivered many lectures, including the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture (1989), the first Erasmus Darwin Memorial Lecture (1990)...
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    philosophers, scholars, scientists, educators and politicians, such as Henry Sidgwick, Arthur Balfour, William Crookes, Rufus Osgood Mason, and Nobel Laureate...
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    The Sidgwick Site is one of the largest sites within the University of Cambridge, England. The Sidgwick Site is located on the western side of Cambridge...
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    by Emily Davies in 1869, Newnham College, founded by Anne Clough and Henry Sidgwick in 1872, Hughes Hall, founded in 1885 by Elizabeth Phillips Hughes as...
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    the more significant friendships initiated at Cambridge was that with Henry Sidgwick from Trinity College, later a leading educational reformer, of whom...
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  • David Ricardo David George Ritchie: 483–484  Lionel Robbins: 484–486  Henry Sidgwick: 531–534  James Fitzjames Stephen Leslie Stephen: 535–538  William Thompson...
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    respect to what one can afford to pay, "is denominated a mean temper". Henry Sidgwick in The Methods of Ethics held meanness to be both the opposite of liberality...
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    values do exist, and defends the 19th century utilitarian philosopher Henry Sidgwick's view that objective morality can be derived from fundamental moral...
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    in 1885. At Trinity he was taught for the Moral Sciences Tripos by Henry Sidgwick and James Ward, both distinguished philosophers. After obtaining First...
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