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Quinton, Lord Anthony Meredith was born on March 25, 1925 in Gillingham, Kent, England. Son of Richard Frith and Gwenllyan Letitia (Jones) Quinton.
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Anthony Quinton's concise study of utilitarianism, which has been long been unavailable, is generally acknowledged as the best introduction to the subject. This edition includes a new preface surveying recent developments. The book begins with a definition of utilitarianism, and goes on to consider hedonism as a criterion of value and theory of motivation. Early hedonism is surveyed, followed by the emergence of utilitarianism proper with Hume, Tucker and Paley. The contributions of Bentham, James Mill and J.S. Mill are analyzed, with particular attention to J.S. Mill’s arguments concerning the sanction of morality, the proof of the principle of utility and the question of justice and utility. The criticisms of Grote, Sidgwick, Moore and later writers are also appraised.
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This text addresses some of the central political, philosophical and religious issues. Divided into four sections, the book: examines large political and social questions, culminating in the question of modern ethics; applies ideas to specific social and educational concerns, including "The Idea of a University: Newman's and Others", and "The Idea of a National Library"; and takes a historical and thematic line to consider imperialism, property, madness and homosexuality. The final section begins with the author's essay on "The Inner Life" and looks at the claims of the imagination and the limits of subjectivity in the arts and the lives of artists and philosophers.
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Quinton, Lord Anthony Meredith was born on March 25, 1925 in Gillingham, Kent, England. Son of Richard Frith and Gwenllyan Letitia (Jones) Quinton.
Bachelor, Oxford (England) University, 1949. Master of Arts, Oxford (England) University, 1950. Doctor of Humane Letters, New York University, 1986.
Doctor of Humane Letters, Ball State University, 1989.
Fellow All Souls College, Oxford, 1949-1955. Fellow, tutor New College, 1955-1978. Lecturer Oxford University, 1950-1978.
President Trinity College, Oxford, 1978-1987. Chairman board British Library, London, 1985-1990. Governor Stowe School, Buckingham, England, 1963-1983.
Fellow Winchester (England) College, 1970-1985. Delegate Oxford University Press, 1970-1976. Member Arts Council Great Britain, London, 1979-1981.
( Anthony Quinton's concise study of utilitarianism, whic...)
(This text addresses some of the central political, philos...)
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Quinton’s philosophy is best seen as a series of modifications to or reactions against the tradition of British philosophy that runs from the empiricists of the eighteenth century, through Mill in the nineteenth, and on to Russell and Ayer in the twentieth. Thus in epistemology he has defended a foundationalism, but one in which the basic statements are about physical objects, not sense impressions. In logic he has supported the traditional empiricist theses that all a priori truths are analytic, and that all analytic truths are true in virtue of facts about the meanings of words.
In the philosophy of mind, he has supported the now widely held view that the mind is contingently identical to the brain. But he has interestingly combined this with the less common belief that if we are to individuate mental events and attribute causal powers to them, then the dualist hypothesis that such events are non-physical is not so much contingently false as incoherent. This in turn implies that some form of materialism is not merely true, but is the only coherent option.
Less traditionally, he has denied that there is an unbridgeable fact/value gap, arguing that value is definable in broadly utilitarian terms, by reference to human satisfaction and suffering. In politics, he has defended a modest and humane conservatism.
More unusually for a modem analytic philosopher, he has shown a range of interests and sympathies which, encompassing the Frankfurt School and Marshall McLuhan, Polish philosophy and Mortimer Adler, goes well beyond the limits of most current English-speaking philosophers.
Member House of Lords, Westminster, 1982, Government Committee on Future of Broadcasting, London, 1986. With Royal Air Force, 1943-1946. Member Beefsteak, Garrick, Brooks's.
Married Marcelle Wegier, August 2, 1952. Children: Joanna Bateman, Edward Frith.