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Sidgwick was born on May 31, 1838 in Skipton, England, where his father, the Reverend W. Sidgwick (d. 1841), was headmaster of the local grammar school, Ermysted's Grammar School. His mother was Mary Sidgwick, née Crofts (1807-1879).
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THE ELEMENTS OF POLITICS is part of an impressive catalog of books by the English philosopher and educator Henry Sidgwick. First published in 1898, this two-part work is a collection of twenty essays, all of which represent his ideas related to the scope and method of politics, fundamental conceptions of politics and general principles of legislation, inheritance and property rights, contracts and remedies for wrongs, the maintenance of government as well as law and morality. Throughout his work, Sidgwick addressed politics and all its inherent problems with acuity, genuine concern, and the enduring rationale he brought to all his writings. HENRY SIDGWICK (1838-1900) was a prominent scholar at Trinity College and a distinguished Professor of Moral Philosophy at Cambridge. As the quintessential Victorian, he was the perfect 19th Century English academic (although he temporarily lost his fellowship in 1869 over his refusal to make a religious oath; he was re-elected in 1885). Additional works include Principles (1883), Methods of Ethics (1874), and Edgeworth (1877).
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This volume provides a selection of the shorter writings of the great nineteenth-century moral philosopher Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick's monumental work The Methods of Ethics is a classic of philosophy, and this new volume is a fascinating complement to it. It will be a rich resource for anyone interested in moral philosophy or the development of modern analytical philosophy.
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Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) is best known for his work The Methods of Ethics, which went through seven editions and served as the principal textbook in ethics for a half century. His fame as a moral philosopher has tended to obscure the true range of his contributions to other subjects, many of which are hidden away in periodicals and encyclopedias, now accessible to only the most determined researchers. These two volumes of previously uncollected essays and reviews give the reader a welcome opportunity to explore these lesser-known but no less important shorter writings. Gathered together for the first time are many valuable documents in ethics, the history of philosophy, economics, political philosophy, psychology, the philosophy of history, and psychical research. The book reviews provide Sidgwick's comments upon most of the important philosophical texts published in the last third of the nineteenth century. The collection shows just how central Sidgwick was both to the evolution of British analytical philosophy and to the development of philosophy as a discipline in its own right. --a comprehensive collection of his lesser-known philosophical writings, gathered from a wide range of sources --includes reviews of many of the era's major philosophical publications
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This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited. From the forward by John Rawls: In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick (1838-1900) has an important place. His fundamental work, The Methods of Ethics (first edition 1874, seventh and last edition 1907, here reprinted), is the clearest and most accessible formulation of what we may call 'the classical utilitarian doctorine.' This classical doctrine holds that the ultimate moral end of social and individual action is the greatest net sum of the happiness of all sentient beings. Happinesss is specified (as positive or negative) by the net balance of pleasure over pain, or, as Sidgwick preferred to say, as the net balance of agreeable over disagreeable consciousness. . . .
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Sidgwick was born on May 31, 1838 in Skipton, England, where his father, the Reverend W. Sidgwick (d. 1841), was headmaster of the local grammar school, Ermysted's Grammar School. His mother was Mary Sidgwick, née Crofts (1807-1879).
Sidgwick was educated at Rugby (where his cousin, subsequently his brother-in-law, E. W. Benson - afterwards archbishop - was a master), and at Trinity, Cambridge, where his career was a brilliant one. In 1875 he was appointed praelector on moral and political philosophy at Trinity, in 1883 he was elected Knight-bridge professor of moraf philosophy, and in 1885, the religious test having been removed, his college once more elected him to a fellowship on the foundation.
Sidgwick was active in promoting higher education for women, primarily through founding Newnham College, Cambridge (1871), of which his wife, Eleanor Balfour, became principal in 1892. A member of the Metaphysical Society, he was also interested in psychical phenomena and was a founder and first president of the Society for Psychical Research in 1882.
In philosophy Sidgwick followed the Utilitarianism of John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) and adopted the ethical principle known as the categorical imperative from Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). He drew on the views of both men for his first and major work, The Methods of Ethics. By a method, Sidgwick meant the rational process of arriving at a means of making ethical decisions. All possible attempts at method, he believed, could be summarized by three approaches: egoism, Utilitarianism, and intuitionism. Egoism refers to the theory that justifies an action in terms of the happiness it produces in the agent of the act. Utilitarianism seeks to contribute to the happiness of all persons affected by the act. Intuitionism indicates that ends other than happiness might be acceptable, and that guidelines other than those that promote happiness might be suitable means to an end. Sidgwick argued that neither the first nor the last could, by itself, supply an adequate basis for rational conduct. Instead he proposed a system of “universalistic hedonism, ” which, in a manner parallel to Kant’s categorical imperative, sought to reconcile the apparent conflict between the pleasure of self and that of others.
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Brought up in the Church of England, Sidgwick drifted away from orthodox Christianity, and as early as 1862 he described himself as a theist, independent from established religion. For the rest of his life, although he regarded Christianity as "indispensable and irreplaceable -
looking at it from a sociological point of view, " he found himself unable to return to it as a religion.
In politics Sidgwick was a Liberal, and became a Liberal Unionist in 1886.
Member of the General Board of Studies (1882-1899), member of the Council of the Senate of the Indian Civil Service Board, member of the Local Examinations and Lectures Syndicate, chairman of the Special Board for Moral Science.
She was an activist for the higher education of women, Principal of Newnham College of the University of Cambridge, and a leading figure in the Society for Psychical Research.
