Rosen Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-1-134-59910-3
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory

This book presents a new interpretation of the principle of utility in moral and political theory based on the writings of the classical utilitarians from Hume to J.S. Mill. Discussion of utility in writers such as Adam Smith, William Paley and Jeremy Bentham is included.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosen, Frederick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Part I

2. Utility and Justice: Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition

3. Reading Hume Backwards: Utility as the Foundation of Morals

4. The Idea of Utility in Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments

5. Helvetius, the Scottish Enlightenment, and Bentham's Idea of Utility

6. The Idea of Utility in Smith's Wealth of Nations

7. Bentham and Smith on Liberty

8. William Paley as a Utilitarian

9. Liberty, Utility, and the Reform of the Criminal Law

10. J.S. Mill's Hedonism

11. J.S. Mill on Justice and Liberty

Part II

12. Punishment of the Innocent

13. Individual Sacrifice and the Greatest Happiness

14. The Tyranny of the Majority

15. Negative Liberty

Über Autor(innen)

Frederick Rosen is Professor of the History of Political Thought at University College London. He has served as General Editor of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, Director of the Jeremy Bentham Project, and Director of the Centre for Politics, Law and Society at UCL. Among his books are Jeremy Bentham and Representative Democracy(1983) and Bentham, Byron and Greece: Constitutionalism, Nationalism, and Early Liberal Political Thought (1992). He has co-edited several books, was the founding editor of Utilitas, and has contributed numerous articles to various learned journals.