British Ethical Theorists from Sidgwick to Ewing
ISBN: 9780199233625
Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / Oxford University Press
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Subjects: Philosophy History of Philosophy Moral Philosophy;

Thomas Hurka examines a group of British moral philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who shared key assumptions that made them a unified and distinctive school in the history of ethics. The best-known of them are Henry Sidgwick, G. E. Moore, and W. D. Ross; others include Hastings Rashdall, H. A. Prichard, C. D. Broad, and A. C. Ewing. Hurka recovers the history of this largely neglected group by showing what its members thought, howthey influenced each other, and how their ideas changed through time. He also identifies the shared assumptions that made their school unified and distinctive, and assesses their contributionscritically, both when they debated each other and when they agreed. One of his themes is that that their general approach to ethics was more fruitful philosophically than many better-known ones of both earlier and later times.

Thomas Hurka is Chancellor Henry N.R. Jackman Distinguished Professor of Philosophical Studies at the University of Toronto and taught previously at the University of Calgary. He is the author of several books primarily in the theory of value--Perfectionism (OUP, 1993), Virtue, Vice, and Value (OUP, 2001), and The Best Things in Life (OUP, 2011)--and is the author of Underivative Duty: British Moral Philosophers from Sidgwick toEwing (OUP, 2011), as well as numerous articles in moral and political philosophy. For a time he was a weekly ethics columnist for the Globe and Mail newspaper.

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